[9] The mark over the second syllable is called the diæresis. It indicates that each vowel is to be pronounced separately.
[10] Such may be called logically co-ordinate, though grammatically dependent. The restrictive relative clause may be called the necessary relative clause; the non-restrictive may be called the unnecessary or additional relative clause.
[11] Comprehensively is Mr. Stevenson’s word—not the husband’s; it is inserted to show the way in which, probably with a vague gesture, the husband said all.
[12] Demean = behave. What word would be better here?
[13] A quaint way of spelling eras.
[14] Solecism is Greek in origin. The Athenian colonists of Soli in Asia Minor spoke Greek so badly that the Attic Greeks came to refer to an error in grammar (or in pronunciation) as soloikismós, whence our word.
[15] Advanced Exercises, p. 85.
[16] There are few exceptions: day’s work, week’s pay, etc.
[17] Is there incoherence between the clauses of this sentence after vowing? If so, how remedy it?
[18] Each of these paragraphs was written as a part of a larger whole. But each is complete in itself, and may be considered as an independent whole.