Part 175 (2/2)
OBS 2--Sometimes a series of questions may be severally coative sign, though some or all of them may be so united in construction, as not to ad intermediate pause or an initial capital; as, ”Is there no honor in generosity? nor in preferring the lessons of conscience to the i the supre reverence to Christian truth?”--_Gannett_ ”True honour is manifested in a steady, uniform train of actions, attended by justice, and directed by prudence Is this the conduct of the duellist? will justice support hi the co the poor of a benefactor? will it support hi the orphan's eyes with tears?”--_Jerningham's Essay_, p 113 But, in this latter exaht be substituted for the second and fourth erotein with a capital
OBS 3--When a question is n of interrogation, though not actually asked by the writer; and, except perhaps when it consists of soative word or phrase, requires the initial capital: as, ”To knohen this point ought to be used, do not say:[,] 'Is a question asked?' but, 'Does the sentence ask a question?'”--_Churchill's Grae inarticulate question, 'What do you mean to do with us?' in a doenerally known, by its answering to the question, Ho 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 Grareat accuracy, has been altered by Murray and others in ways innuation points
But, as to capitals and commas, as well as the construction of words, it would seem no easy ht In Flint's Murray it stands thus: ”An adverbthe question, Ho 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 soative 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 eroteation, 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 onSouth”--_Peirce, ib_, p 133
”An Interrogative pronoun is one that is used in asking a question; as, '_who_ is he, and _what_ does he want?'”--_Day's School Graenerally used ould inquire for some unknown person or persons; as, _who_ is that man”--_Ib_, p 24 ”Our fathers, where are they, and the prophets, do they live forever?”--_Ib_, p 109
”It is true, that some of our best writers have used _than whom_; but it is also true, that they have used _other_ phrases which we have rejected as ungrammatical: then why not reject this too--The sentences in the Exercises [with _than who_] are correct as they stand”--_Lennie's Gram_, 5th Ed, 1819, p 79
”When the perfect participle of an active-intransitive verb is annexed to the neuter verb _to be_? What does the combination form?”--_Hallock's Gram_, p 88 ”Those adverbs which answer to the question _where, whither_ or _whence_, are called adverbs of _place_”--_Ib_, p 116
”Canst thou, by searching, find out God; Canst thou find out the Alh as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know?”--_Blair's Rhet_ p 132
”Where, where, for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale”--_Ib_, p 222
UNDER RULE II--QUESTIONS UNITED
”Who knohat resources are in store? and what the power of God may do for thee?”
[FORMULE--Not proper, because an eroteme is set after _store_, where a co to Rule 2d for the Eroteme, ”When two or more questions are united in one compound sentence, the comma, semicolon, or dash, is sometimes used to separate them, and the eroteme occurs after the last only” Therefore, the comma should here be preferred, as the author probably wrote the text See _Key_]
”The Lord is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said it? and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken it?