44. _What is a short syllable?_
One in which the vowel has the short sound.
45. _What kind of a mark is the Tilde?_
A Spanish mark.
46. _How many uses has the Tilde?_
Two.
47. _What are they?_
Placed over _n_ it gives the sound of _ny_ as, in ca[~n]on. In
English it indicates certain sounds of the vowels.
48. _How many accent marks are there?_
Three.
49. _What are they?_
Grave, Acute, and Circumflex.
50. _What is the use of the Grave accent?_
To mark the falling inflection.
51. _What is the use of the Acute accent?_
To mark the primary accent, and the rising inflection.
52. _What is the use of the Circumflex?_
To mark the peculiar inflection of the voice in the pronunciation
of a word.
53. _How many uses has the Hyphen?_
Three.
54. _What are they?_
To separate the parts of a compound word; to separate a word into
syllables; and to divide a word at the end of a line.
55. _When should the Hyphen be used in a compound word?_
When the word has not become permanently compounded.
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