Chapter 158

1. Explain the terms _Syntax_, _Ellipsis_, _Pleonasm_, _Zeugma_, _Pros to semainomenon_, _Apposition_, and _Convertibility_, giving illustrations of each.

2. What is the government of adjectives?

3. What is the construction in--

a. Rob _me_ the Exchequer.--SHAKSPEARE. b. Mount _ye_ on horseback. c. _His_ mother. d. If the salt have lost _his_ savour. e. Myself _is_ weak. f. This is _mine_.

4. What are the concords between the relative and antecedent? How far is, _whom_ do they say that I am, an exceptionable expression?

5. _Eteocles and Polynices killed each other._ What is the construction here? _Ils se battaient, l'un l'autre_--_Ils se battaient, les uns les autres._ Translate these two sentences into English. _My wife and little ones are well._ What is the origin of the word _ones_ here? _It _was_ those who spoke_. _These _was_ those who spoke_. Why is one of those expressions correct, and the other incorrect?

6. What is the difference between--

_The_ secretary and treasurer, and _The_ secretary and _the_ treasurer?

What is that between--

The first two-- and The two first?

7. What is the construction of--

He sleeps the sleep of the righteous?

8. Whether do you say--It is I your master who command you, or It is I your master who commands you!

9. Barbican it _hight_. Translate this into Latin.

10. Explain in full the following constructions--

a. I have ridden a horse. b. I am to blame. c. I am beaten. d. A part of the body. e. All fled but John.

11. What is meant by the _Succession of Tenses_? Show the logical necessity of it.

12. Or _hear'st_ thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain _who can_ tell?--MILTON.

Give the meaning of this passage, and explain the figure of speech exhibited in the words in Italics.

13. The _door_ being open the steed was stolen.--In what case is _door_?