IRREGULAR VERBS, LIKE venir AND tenir.

TERMINATIONS OF THE THIRD CONJUGATION- The Verb recevoir

TERMINATIONS OF THE FOURTH CONJUGATION— The Verb vendre

VERBS LIKE paraître AND croître

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SELECTIONS.-Sobriété, 362; Affection Conjugale, 362; Opinion de Jefferson sur

le Peuple Français, 363; Le Philosophe Vaincu, 363; Le Page, 364; Manière

de Demander un Sou, 364; Prière d'un Enfant, 365; La Fille de Robert, 365;

L'étrange Nageur, 366; La Fuite Heureuse, 367; Les Gages d'un Roi, 367;

Danger de la Désobéissance, 368-370; Le Voleur de Grand Chemin, 370; Le

Cœur d'une Mère, 370; Scarron, 371; Absence d'Esprit de Newton, 371: Ac-

tivité et Indolence, 372; Henri IV., 372; Politesse Rustique, 373; Sterne, 374;

Anecdote de Tompion, 374; Anecdote d'un Grenadier, 375; La Chèvre Recon-

naissante, 375; Le Chien Fidèle, 376; Le Marechal Turenne, 377; Gustave

Adolphe, 377; Le Mordeur Mordu, 378; Mourir en Vain, 378; L'esprit d'York-

shire, 379; Un Gros Ane, 379; Une Conscience Tendre, 380; Les Colons, 380-

385; Noces de Henri IV., 385-389; Est-ce un Rêve, 389; L'homme au Masque

de fer, 392; Histoire d'un Lièvre, 393.

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DUFFET'S

FRENCH METHOD.

PART FIRST.

PRONUNCIATION.

THE French alphabet is composed of the following twenty-five letters, which are divided into vowels and

The compound vowels are ai, eu, ou: ai has two pronunciations, è or é. The pronunciation of u is not like any English

vowel.

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ACCENT.

In the French language there are three accents which are placed on the vowels to modify their pronunciation; but they belong principally to the e.

L'accent aigu (é), the accute accent; as in été, summer; vérité, truth; célébrité, celebrity.

L'accent grave (è), the grave accent; as in père, father; mère, mother; fidèle, faithful.

L'accent circonflexe (ê), the circumflex accent; as in même, even, same; prêter, to lend; pâte, paste; apôtre, apostle.

The circumflex accent often represents a letter which has been suppressed, as in pâte, formerly spelled paste; même, mesme; forêt, forest; épître, epistre, epistle; âge, aage, age, etc.

If e be without the accent, it is generally either pronounced short or not at all, and is called e mute.

Table, pronounce tabl'; porte, door, pronounce port; venir, to come, pronounce v'nir; besoin, pronounce b'soin, etc.

The accent aigu is only used on the e; the accent grave is also used on a; the accent circonflexe, or the long accent, occurs in the vowels a, e, i, o, u, and lengthens them-âme, tête, île, côte, flûte.

Besides the three above accents, the French language has the following accentual marks:

The tréma (ï, ë), two points which are sometimes placed over a vowel: haïr, to hate; ambiguë, ambiguous.

The cédille (ç), which is sometimes placed under c before a, o, u: effaça, effaçons, reçut.

The apostrophe ('), which takes the place of a, e, or i; l'amie, l'enfant, s'il, for la amie, le enfant, si il.

été, b

idée, le

The trait d'union (-), hyphen, which joins two words: porteplume, dit-elle, êtes-vous ?