dont, complement of a verb or an adjective followed by de, 7; dont instead of au moyen duquel, avec lequel, &c., 8; où for duquel, &c., 9 dont, d'où, with sortir, descendre, 10; lequel preceded by two substantives of different genders, 11; qui, que, or lequel, 12; equivoque of qui, que, dont, 13 qui, que, dont, separated by verbs or adjectives from their antecedent, 14; false construction of qui, 15; qui repeated, 16; qui or quel, qui des deux or lequel des deux, 17
c'est à vous que, c'est vous à qui, c'est à vous à qui, &c., 18; ce qui, ce que, ce dont, ce à quoi, how translated, 19; ce qui, ce que, 20
c'est là que, not où, 21; que compared with combien 22;
au moment que, or où, &c., 23; quoi que and quoique,
24; que for à quoi, de quoi, 25
SUBSTANTIVES (SYNTAX OF) :
always used in the plural, 20; number of substantives
taken materially, 21; number of proper names, 22
number of compound, 22; substantive and adjective
united, 23; substantive united by a preposition, 24;
joined with an invariable word, 25; formed with a
verb and a substantive, 26; invariable, 27; compound
with a word not generally in use, 28
number of, after de, 29; preceded by plus de, 30; number
of, after plein de, rempli de, &c., 31; with verbs fol-
lowed by de, 32
variable or invariable, 35; number of, after de, preceded by a collective noun, 36; after de, en, 37 ..
number of, after à, 38; after de, à, 39; after en, 40;
SUBSTANTIVES (SYNTAX OF):
after sans, pour, par, &c., 41; as complements of verbs, 42
VERBS (SYNTAX OF):
number of, after substantives recapitulated by tout, rien,
personne, &c., 5; after tout, chaque, quelque, repeated,
6; after several substantives united by ni, repeated,
7; after substantives united by ou, 8
number of, after l'un et l'autre, &c., 9; after comme,
ainsi que, &c., 10; after plutôt que, non plus que, &c.,
number of, after plus d'un, 13; after collective nouns, 14; after la plupart, &c., 15
étre preceded by ce, 23; c'est and ce sont, 24; c'est and
ce sont in opposition, 25; c'est or ce sont followed by
several substantives, 26
c'est or sont after several infinitives, 27; c'est nous, c'est
vous, &c., 28; c'est followed by a preposition, 29;
qu'est ce que followed by a plural noun, 30; c'est
preceded by two nouns, 31; si ce n'est, si ce ne sont,
c'est là, ce sont là, 33; c'est followed by qui, 34; number of virre, importer, périr, &c., 35
— in the plural, with a subject in the singular, 36
AGREEMENT OF THE, with the subject, 37; with several
nouns of different persons, 38; qui preceded by a
personal pronoun, 39; qui following an adjective, 40;
qui preceded by an adjective taken substantively, 41;
qui preceded by a substantive, 42
PLACING OF THE SUBJECT IN (A. Pronouns), 43; sub-
ject after the verb, 44; in interrogative sentences,
45; in exclamations, 46; with a verb in the sub-
junctive, 47; with tel, ainsi, voilà, &c., 48. .
-ellipsis or repetition of the subject, 49; subject separated
from the verb, 50; verb repeated, 51
ellipsis of the, 52; subjects which differ in number, 53
DIRECT AND INDIRECT COMPLEMENT OF, after the
verb, 54; one complement with several verbs, 55;
direct complement coming before the indirect, 56;
with an indirect complement shorter than the other, 57
the parts of such complements ought to be similar, 58
avoir and étre, 59; neuter verbs, 60; verbs which take
avoir, 61
indicative for the future, 62; the present for the past,
63; the imperfect, 64; c'est moi qui, or ce sera moi
qui, 65; on m'a dit que c'est, or que c'était, 66; indica-
tive after si, 67; indicative before aroir and étre, 68;
si replaced by que, 69; imperfect for the conditional,
70 ..
preterite definite and preterite indefinite, 71
both tenses used promiscuously, 72; ditto, 73; how to
apply the French rule, 74; the preterite for the future, 75; the past anterior, 76; the pluperfect, 77 414
future, 78; the future anterior, 79; used for the im-
perative, 80; future or preterite, 81; two futures, 82;
used to express doubt, 83; used of the future after
dès que, &c., 84
conditional, 85; conditional past, 86; never used after
si, 87
Alentour, 2; auparavant, 3; aussi, 4; comme, 5; comment,
6; dessus, 7; dessous, 8; dedans, 9; dehors, 10; beaucoup,
11; de loin en loin, 12; au moins, du moins, 13; plus
tôt, plutôt, 14; quand, quant, 15; au reste, du reste, 16
de suite, 17; tout-à-coup, 18; ici, 19
NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS:
ne in sentences both interrogative and negative, 6
ne with douter, nier, &c., 7
ne when douter, nier, are used affirmatively,
ne in a subordinate proposition, 9
ne after prendre garde, garder, 10
défendre, to forbid, 11
il s'en faut, &c., 12, 13
avant que, sans que, 14
autre, autrement, &c., 15
non seulement, 16
si and aussi, 17; aussi, autant, 18
d'autant plus, d'autant mieux, 19; d'autant moins, 20
autant, tant, 21; si and tant, 22
the more or the less. . . . for it, 23
plus, moins, mieux, 24; comparisons, 25
· plus d'à moitié, plus d'à demi, 27; plus que, moins que,
mieux
28..
que,
plus de, 29; plus and mieux, 30; plus and moins re- peated, 31; plus and davantage, de plus and davantage, 32, 33
de plus replacing davantage, 34
très, 35, 36; bien, 37; rien, 38
before the names of countries, rivers, towns, &c., 6, 7,
8, 9 ..
after adverbs of quantity and collective nouns, 10
after bien, la plupart, &c.. 11
QUE for si, 19; instead of comme, 20
supplying jusqu'à ce que, 21; meaning vependant, 22
for si, dès que, 23; for depuis que, 24; for de telle
sorte, 25
correlative to à peine, 26; to an adverb of compari- son, 27; meaning comme, 28, .
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