ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN THE

FRENCH LANGUAGE.

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Il faut penser dans une langue pour l'écrire un peu proprement; tous les professeurs vous le diront.

EDMOND ABOUT,
Le Progrès.

As regards language-teaching, grammar, as it is called, used as an elementary instrument, is the great barrier to progress; such teaching Grammar ought to be the last instead of

begins where it should end.

the first means of instruction.

SIR JOHN BOWRING,

Schools Inquiry Commission.

IN

THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.

COMPRISING:

I.—A SKETCH OF GRAMMAR, WITH EXERCISES.

DULAU & CO., 37, SOHO SQUARE;
WHITTAKER AND CO., 13, AVE MARIA LANE.

1869.

303. f. 46

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.

The determinative words: Article definite, partitive, indefinite;

adjectives demonstrative, possessive, indefinite; cardinal and

ordinal numbers; coins, weights, measures, &c. .

CHAPTER III.

Plural and gender of nouns, qualificative adjectives and past

participles; formation of adverbs; degrees of comparison

CHAPTER IV.

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Pronouns-personal, possessive, demonstrative, relative, inter-

rogative, indefinite

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CHAPTER V.

The Verb: Avoir, être, aimer; the four regular conjugations com-
pared; the formation of the tenses; irregular and defective
verbs; the synthesis of all verbs; verbs conjugated negatively
and interrogatively; pronominal verbs; idiomatic verbs.

* Each Part may be had separately at Two Shillings.

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