Most adverbs are formed by adding to adjectives the syllable ment, corresponding to ly in English; as:

Ment is added to the masculine adjective, if that adjective ends with a vowel, or, if it does not, to the feminine; as:

Utile, utilement, useful, usefully.

Doux, douce, doucement, sweet, sweetly.

Positif, positive, positivement, positive, positively.
Certain, certaine, certainement, certain, certainly.

EXCEPTIONS.

Gentil, gentiment, pretty, prettily.

Commune, communément, common, commonly.

Diffuse, diffusément, diffuse, diffusely.

Expresse, expressément, express, expressly.

Importune, importunément, importunate, importunately.

Obscure, obscurément, obscure, obscurely.

Précise, précisément, precise, precisely.

Profonde, profondément, profound, profoundly.

The adjectives beau, nouveau, fou, mou, whose feminine is belle, nouvelle, folle, molle, form the adverbs by adding ment to the feminine; as:

Bellement, beautifully; nouvellement, newly; follement, foolishly; mollement, softly.

N. B. —Impuni, impunément, unpunished, with impunity.

Adjectives in ent, ant, change nt into m to form adverbs in ment; as:

Impatient, impatiemment, impatiently.
Savant, savamment, learnedly.

Prudent, prudemment, prudently.

Etonnant, étonnamment, astonishingly.

Except, Lent, lentement, slowly.

Plus, davantage, more.

Plus expresses a comparison; davantage implies one. The former establishes it in a direct manner; the latter, in an indirect manner.

B. is taller than C.

B. has more houses than you.
Yes, but his uncle has still more
of them.

B. est plus grand que C.
B. a plus de maisons que vous.
Oui, mais son oncle en a encore
davantage.

The position of davantage is properly at the end of the clause. When used with the infinitive, it may precede or follow the verb.

à is used for to, at, or in before proper names of places, such as towns; en is used for to or in before names of countries and provinces; as, I am going to Paris: Je vais à Paris. I am going to France: Je vais en France.

En is used with nouns taken in a vague or indeterminate sense, and is not generally followed by the article.

Dans is used with nouns taken in a more determined sense, and requires the article:

I was in France, in the south.
My hope is in you.

She is in her room.

J'étais en France, dans le midi.

Mon espoir est en vous.

Elle est dans sa chambre.

Dans marks the time when things are executed, and en the length of time required to execute them.

A moins que, unless.

De crainte que,

De peur que,

then, therefore.

Require ne before the following

} for fear that. verb in the subjunctive mode.

Comme,

as.

Donc,