147. The interrogation point is used at the end of every direct question. 148. The exclamation point is used after words, phrases, and sentences that express strong emotion. 149. Quotation marks are used to enclose the words of a direct quotation. 150. The apostrophe denotes the omission of one or more letters. Its most common occurrence is in the possessive case of nouns. 151. The parenthesis is used to enclose a part of a sentence which is not absolutely necessary, but which in some way explains the meaning of the sentence. 152. The dash denotes an unexpected turn in the sentence. It is sometimes used to indicate parenthesis, or to show that what follows is a summing up of what has preceded. INDEX AND VOCABULARY KEY TO PRONUNCIATION:-a as in fate; ă as in făt; ä as in ärm; a as in Roman numerals refer to pages; boldface numerals to sections in PART VI. Abridgment, 240; 134, a, b; 135. Alvarado (äl-vä-rä'thō), 209. Absolute construction, 242; 126, a, b, Anahuac (ä-nä'wäk), an Aztec name Note. Abstract noun, 15. Adjective clause, 87. Adjective, construction of, 236. Adjective element, 20; 28; 45. Classification, 259. Classification, 142; 266; 102, a, b, c; Comparison, 142; 104. Correlatives, 245. Scotia and New Brunswick, whose | Construction, exercises in, 277. Coureurs-des-bois (kōō'rēr-dā-bwä), men Crē'ōles, persons born of European par- Cuitlahua (kwēt-lä’wä), 191. Conditional sentences, 223; 133, a, b, c, Factitive verb, 124. Note. Conjugation, 88-92. Conjunction, 65; 148; 149; 10; 110, a, Conjunctive adverb, 95; 105. Construction, absolute, 242. Fä'tå Môr-gän'å, a kind of mirage due Fates, three sister goddesses who, ac- Romans, controlled the affairs of hu- | Language, 2. man life. One was represented as Lajeunesse — (lä-zhe-něs'). spinning the thread of life, the second | Le Carillon de Dunkerque (lŭ kä-rē-yoN Fontaine-qui-bout (fon-tan-ke-boo'), For, introducing abridged clause, 249. Gaspereau (găs'per-ō), a river near Gender, 107; 18-26. Genitive, 36. Gerund, 197; 93, b; 97. Gonzalo de Sandoval (gòn-thä lỗ dã săn- Grand-Pré (grän-prā'); compare this Have, conjugated, 90. Loup-garou (loo-gä-roo'), French for Many a, 61. Měl'í-tå, an island in the Mediterranean Mï'näs. Mon-te-zū'mȧ, 187. Mood, 173; 84, a, b, c; 85. Indicative, uses of, 129, a, b, c; 130; Subjunctive, uses of, 131; 132, a-d; Henries, kings of France in sixteenth Mow'is, 164. |