their huge
inarticulate question, 'What do you mean to do with us?' in a manner
audible to every reflective soul in the kingdom."--_Carlyle's Past and
Present_, p. 16. "An adverb may be generally known, by its answering to the
question, How? how much? when? or where? as, in the phrase, 'He reads
_correctly_,' the answer to the question, How does he read? is
_correctly_."--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 28. This passage, which, without
ever arriving at great accuracy, has been altered by Murray and others in
ways innumerable, is everywhere exhibited with five interrogation points.
But, as to capitals and commas, as well as the construction of words, it
would seem no easy matter to determine what impression of it is nearest
right. In Flint's Murray it stands thus: "An adverb may generally be known
by its answering the question, How? How much? When? or Where? As in the
phrase, 'He reads _correctly_. The answer to the question, 'How does he
read?' is, '_correctly_.'" Such questions, when the pause is slight, do
not, however, in all cases, require capitals: as,

"_Rosal_. Which of the visors was it, that you wore?
_Biron_. Where? when? what visor? why demand you this?"
_Shakspeare, Love's Labour Lost_, Act V, Sc. 2.

OBS. 4.--A question is sometimes put in the form of a mere declaration; its
interrogative character depending solely on the eroteme, and the tone, or
inflection of voice, adopted in the utterance: as, "I suppose, Sir, you are
his apothecary?"--SWIFT: _Burgh's Speaker_, p. 85. "I hope, you have, upon
no account, promoted sternutation by hellebore?"--_Id., ib._ "This priest
has no pride in him?"--SINGER'S SHAK., _Henry_ VIII, ii, 2.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE PUNCTUATION.--ERRORS CONCERNING THE EROTEME.

UNDER RULE I.--QUESTIONS DIRECT.

"When will his ear delight in the sound of arms."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._,
12mo, p. 59.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because here is a finished question with a period
set after it. But, according to Rule 1st for the Eroteme, "Questions
expressed directly as such, if finished, should always be followed by the
note of interrogation." Therefore, the eroteme, or note of interrogation,
should here be substituted for the period.]

"When shall I, like Oscar, travel in the light of my steel."--_Ib._, p. 59.
"Will Henry call on me while he shall be journeying South."--_Peirce, ib._,
p. 133.

"An Interrogative Pronoun is one that is used in asking a q