THE MULTUM IN PARVO; A Complete French Grammar, BY DR. L. C. J. BOURACIER, LATE MATHEMATICAL MASTER AT DELAVIGNE'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR THE ARMY AND UNIVERSITY IN PARIS, AND FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN FRENCH AT THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF SANDHURST. NEW EDITION. REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED. London: PUBLISHED BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 303. 110.. PREFACE. In the following pages I have endeavoured to arrange the most important rules and principles of the French language in a simple, concise, and methodic form. This work, written on an entirely new plan, is divided into three sections: The first contains the French Grammar in the shape of synoptical tables; The second, the principal idiomatic and proverbial sentences; The third, a collection of grammatical papers given in various public examinations. Students reading for the University, the Army, and the Civil Service Examinations, will derive a great benefit from the study of this work. Having spared neither pains nor labour in enlarging and correcting this second edition, I hope it will meet with the same favour from the public as the preceding one. Tunbridge Wells, Jan., 1872. L. C. J. B. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS. Substantives with two genders and different meanings Formation of the plural of Substantives and Exceptions... Substantives with two plural forms and various meanings Plural of Substantives borrowed from dead languages... Plural of Substantives coming from Italian language Rules of the formation of the plural of Compound Sub- Collective noun preceded by an adverb of quantity Agreement of the verb when the complement of a collec- tive noun is understood..... |