Respecting an or a, how does present usage differ from the usage of ancient writers? 18.  Can the insertion or omission of an article greatly affect the import of a sentence? 19.  By a repetition of the article before two or more adjectives, what other repetition is implied? 20.  How do we sometimes avoid such repetition? 21.  Can there ever be an implied repetition of the noun when no article is used?

LESSON XIV.—­NOUNS, OR CASES.

1.  In how many different ways can the nominative case be used? 2.  What is the usual position of the nominative and verb, and when is it varied? 3.  With what nominatives of the second person, does the imperative verb agree? 4.  Why is it thought improper to put a noun in two cases at once? 5.  What case in Latin and Greek is reckoned the subject of the infinitive mood? 6.  Can this, in general, be literally imitated in English? 7.  Do any English authors adopt the Latin doctrine of the accusative (or objective) before the infinitive? 8.  Is the objective, when it occurs before the infinitive in English, usually governed by some verb, participle, or preposition? 9.  What is our nearest approach to the Latin construction of the accusative before the infinitive? 10.  What is apposition, and from whom did it receive this name? 11.  Is there a construction of like cases, that is not apposition? 12.  To which of the apposite terms is the rule for apposition to be applied? 13.  Are words in apposition always to be parsed separately? 14.  Wherein are the common rule and definition of apposition faulty? 15.  Can the explanatory word ever be placed first? 16.  Is it ever indifferent, which word be called the principal, and which the explanatory term? 17.  Why cannot two nouns, each having the possessive sign, be put in apposition with each other? 18.  Where must the sign of possession be put, when two or more possessives are in apposition? 19.  Is it compatible with apposition to supply between the words a relative and a verb; as, “At Mr. Smith’s [who is] the bookseller?” 20.  How can a noun be, or seem to be, in apposition with a possessive pronoun? 21.  What construction is produced by the repetition of a noun or pronoun? 22.  What is the construction of a noun, when it emphatically repeats the idea suggested by a preceding sentence?

LESSON XV.—­NOUNS, OR CASES.

23.  Can words differing in number be in apposition with each other? 24.  What is the usual construction of each other and one an other? 25.  Is there any argument from analogy for taking each other and one an other for compounds? 26.  Do we often put proper nouns in apposition with appellatives? 27.  What preposition is often put between nouns that signify the same thing? 28.  When is an active verb followed by two words in apposition? 29.  Does apposition require any other agreement than that