stitutes has Ng?_
One.

53. _What is it?_
N generally before palate sounds; as, conquer, etc.

54. _What letters have no Substitutes?_
B, D, G, H, L, M, N, P, and R.

55. _What combinations have no Substitutes?_
Th and Wh.

56. _Why is X never doubled?_
It already represents the sounds of K and S.

57. _What letter ends no English word?_
J.

DEFINITIONS AND WORDS.

1. _What is Language?_
Any method for the communication of thought and feeling.

2. _What is Natural Language?_
Instinctive methods of communicating thought or feeling.

3. _What is Artificial Language?_
That which must be learned before it can be used.

4. _Is the English Language natural or artificial?_
Artificial.

5. _How many kinds of Artificial Language?_
Two.

6. _What are they._
Spoken and written.

7. _What is Spoken Language?_
That produced by the vocal organs.

8. _What is Written Language?_
Any method of communicating thought or feeling by the use of
written or printed characters.

9. _What are the messengers of thought?_
Sentences.

10. _What is a Sentence?_
An assemblage of words conveying a thought.

11. _What is a Word?_
A sign of an idea.

12. _What is Lexicology?_
That science which treats of the meaning of words.

13. _What is Etymology?_
That science which treats of the origin and derivation of words.

14. _What is Orthogeny?_
That science which treats of the classification of words into
parts of speech.

15. _What is Syntax?_
That science which treats of the relation and connection of words
in the construction of a sentence.

16. _What is Prosody?_
That science which treats of punctuation and the laws of
versification.

17. _Of what is a word composed?_
A syllable or combination of syllables.

18. _What is a Syllable?_
A letter or letters uttered by a single impulse of the voice.

19. _What is the essential part of a syllable?_
A vowel.

20. _Can there be a syllable without it containing a vowel sound?_
There cannot.

21. _What is Syllabication?_
That branch of etymology which treats of the division of words
into syllables.

22. _How many methods of Syllabication are there?_
Two.

23. _What are they?_
English and American.

24. _What is the object of the English method?_
To separate words into their elementar