35. _How many words end in Ceed?_ Three.

36. _What are they?_ Exceed, proceed, and succeed.

37. _How many of the English words are derived from the Latin?_ About, three-fourths.

38. _What Language is called "Our mother tongue?"_ Anglo-Saxon.

39. _From what language do we get most of our Scientific terms?_ The Greek.

40. _How many English words begin with_ IN _as a prefix?_ Two hundred and fifty.

41. _How many begin with im?_ Seventy-five.

42. _How many begin with un?_ About two thousand.

43. _Were final E not silent, what would be the result?_ Another syllable would be formed.

44. _When is final E dropped in spelling?_ Before vowel terminations mostly.

45. _Why is the final E retained in such words as changeable and traceable?_ To preserve the soft sound of the c or g.

46. _In the words fleeing, seeing, etc., why retain both Es?_ To determine the proper meaning of the word.

47 _What is a Figure of orthography?_ Any departure from the ordinary spelling of a word.

48. _How many Figures are there?_ Two.

49 _What are they?_ Archaism and Mimesis.

50. _What is Archaism?_ The spelling of a word according to ancient usage.

51. _What is Mimesis?_ The spelling of a word in imitation of a false p.r.o.nunciation.

52. _When is i used as a consonant?_ When followed by a vowel in the same syllable; as in alien, etc.

53. _When is y final changed to e?_ Before the suffix ous; as in beauteous.

54. _When is y final changed to i?_ Before the suffix ful; as in beautiful.

55. _What is a Redundant prefix?_ One that does not change the signification of the root; as, _a_ in the word adry.

56. _When is ie changed to y?_ Before the ending _ing_.

57. _When use the digraph ei in spelling?_ Ei follows c soft, and begins words.

58. _When use ie in spelling?_ Ie follows consonants (except c soft), and ends words.

59. _In changing the word hoe to hoeing, why retain the e?_ To preserve its signification.

60. _What is the origin of the suffix less?_ Anglo-Saxon.

61. _What is the origin of the word English?_ It is derived from the word Angles.

62. _Who were the Angles?_ They were a tribe of people who came from the land of the Low Germans and settled in Britain in the fifth century.

63. _What does the word England mean?_ "The land of the Angles."

64. _Why is our language sometimes called the "Teutonic language"?_ Because it is derived from the ancient Germans, who were called Teutons.

65. _What kind of words end in ize?_ Verbs derived from the Greek.

66. _What kind of words end in ise?_ Most words derived from the French.

67. _Why is the English called a Composite Language?_ Because it is derived from so many different sources.

68. _Does adding a single consonant to a word ever make an additional syllable?_ It does.

69. _Give examples._ Grade, grad-ed; confide, con-fi-ded.

70. _Can a word be compound and derivative at the same time?_ It can; as, ball-player.

71. _How distinguish between an affix and a part of a compound word?_ If all the parts retain their literal signification they form a compound; if not, the part which loses its signification becomes an affix in a derivative.

72. _Is the word outside compound or derivative?_ It is compound.

73. _Is the word outrun compound or derivative?_ It is derivative.

74. _What is Derivation?_ That branch of etymology which treats of the sources of the words of a language.

75. _How many kinds of Derivation?_ Two.

76. _What are they?_ Paronymous and Historical.

77. _What is Paronymous derivation?_ That part of etymology which treats of present sources of English words.

78. _Give examples of Paronymous derivation._ Kingdom, from king; Manly, from man, etc.

79. _What is Historical derivation?_ That part of etymology which treats of the foreign sources of the English language.

80. _Give examples of Historical derivation._ Book, from boc; Moon, from mona, etc.

81. _When use a, and when an, in a sentence?_ Use a before all words beginning with a consonant sound, and use an before words beginning with a vowel sound, _h_ mute, or _h_ initial, if the accent is on any other syllable than the first.

82. _Why do words in the English language become obsolete?_ Because it is a living language.

83. _What is a new word?_ One that has recently come into use.

84. _Name some new words._ Outsider, intensify, repudiate, and idiom.