1. What is meant by a “compound”?

2. What is the purpose of a compound?

3. In what three forms do compounds appear?

4. Where should we expect to find guidance in the choice of these forms?

5. Do we so find it, and why?

6. What tendency is observable in usage regarding compounds?

7. What can the printer do?

8. Give Teall’s rules, and show the application of each.

9. What is the influence of accent in compounding?

10. What is the rule about two nouns used together to form a name?

11. What is the rule about names composed of a plain noun and a verbal noun?

12. How are possessive phrases used as specific names treated?

13. What is the rule about phrases used as specific names?

14. How do you write a pair of words used as a name when the second word is a noun and the first not really an adjective?

15. How do you treat two words, not nouns, arbitrarily used as a name?

16. How do you treat a compound consisting of a suffix and a compound proper name?

17. How do you treat words so associated that their joint sense is different from their separate sense?

18. How may compounds having the force of nouns be made up?

19. How may compounds having the force of adjectives be made up?

20. How may compounds having the force of verbs be made up?21. How may compounds having the force of adverbs be made up?

22. How are compound nouns written when one of the components is derived from a transitive verb?

23. How is a compound of a present participle and a noun written?

24. How is a compound of a present participle and a preposition treated?

25. What is the usage in compounds of book, house, will, room, shop, and work?

26. How are compounds of maker and dealer written?

27. What is done when nouns are combined in a descriptive phrase before a name of a person?

28. How are compounds of store treated?

29. How are compounds of fellow treated?

30. How are compounds of father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, parent, and foster treated?

31. What compounds of great are hyphenated?

32. How are compounds of life and world treated?

33. What is the rule about compounds of skin?

34. How are compounds of master treated?

35. What is the rule about compounds of god?

36. Give fifteen common prefixes and tell how they are used, stating exceptions.

37. What are the negative prefixes and how are they used?

38. What is the rule about the prefixes quasi, extra, supra, ultra, and pan?

39. What is the rule about over and under?

40. What is the rule about compounds of self and by?

41. How are compounds of fold treated?

42. What is the rule about compounds of a noun followed by like?

43. How are titles treated when compounded with vice, elect, ex, general, and lieutenant?

44. How do you write three familiar compounds denoting time?

45. How should you treat fractional numbers spelled out?

46. What is done when two or more compound words with a common component occur in succession?47. How do you write compounds of ordinal numbers and nouns?

48. What rule is given about numerals of one syllable?

49. What rule is given about numerals compounded with nouns?

50. How do you treat a compound of two nouns one in the possessive case?

51. How are compounds of tree treated?

52. What is the rule about compounds of two adjectives?

53. What is the rule about points of the compass?

54. What should you do with compounds ending in man or woman?

55. Give certain common typical phrases which omit the hyphen.

56. How do you treat compounds ending in holder and monger?

57. How do you treat compounds beginning with eye?

58. What is said of compounds beginning with deutero, electro, pseudo, sulpho, thermo, and the like?

59. Give some common compounds which are always run solid.

60. How are compounds of color treated?

61. Are these rules universally followed?

62. What is the duty of the compositor in these cases, especially when doubtful?

In this volume, as in so many in this section, much depends upon practice drills. The memorizing of rules is difficult and is of very little use unless accompanied by a great deal of practice so that the apprentice will become so thoroughly familiar with them that he will apply them at once without conscious thought. He should no more think of the rule when he writes fellow-man, than he thinks of the multiplication table when he says seven times eight are fifty-six. This drill may be given in several ways, by asking the student to explain the use or omission of hyphens in printed matter, by giving written matter purposely incorrect in parts and asking him to set it correctly, or by giving dictations and having the apprentice write out the matter and then set it up. Later, when it will not be too wasteful of time, the apprentice can be given the ordinary run of copy as customers send it in and told to set it in correct form. He will probably find enough errors in it to test his knowledge of compounding and of many other things.