19. _What is the essential part of a syllable?_
A vowel.

20. _Can there be a syllable without it containing a vowel sound?_
There cannot.

21. _What is Syllabication?_
That branch of etymology which treats of the division of words
into syllables.

22. _How many methods of Syllabication are there?_
Two.

23. _What are they?_
English and American.

24. _What is the object of the English method?_
To separate words into their elementary parts without regard to
pronunciation; as, a-tom.

25. _What is the object of the American method?_
To indicate the proper pronunciation by separating affixes from
the roots.

26. _What is a word of one syllable called?_
A monosyllable.

27. _What is a word of two syllables called?_
A dissyllable.