PRONOUNS (RELATIVE):

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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) :

aigle, 1..

amour, 2; antomne, 3; quelque chose, 4; couple, 5;

délice, 6

— foudre, 7; gens, 8; orge, 9; orgue, 10

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feminine or masculine, 11; hymne, 12; office, 13; œuvre,

14; période, 15; vogue, 16; voile, 17

expressing qualifications which refer to men, 18; sub-

stantive and adjective used in the singular, 19

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

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number of, after toute sorte de, &c., 33; after feuille de,

peaux de, 34

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;

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SUBSTANTIVES (SYNTAX OF):

after sans, pour, par, &c., 41; as complements of

verbs, 42

VERBS (SYNTAX OF):

number of, with substantives united by et, 1 ; in the

singular, 2; number of, after substantives not united

by et, 3

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.,

11

after two infinitives, 12

number of, after plus d'un, 13; after collective nouns,

14; after la plupart, &c., 15

number of, after a collective partitive, 16; with the col-

lective, followed by a substantive in the singular, 17;

after force gens, &c., 18 ..

number of, after the collective partitive nouns, 19; after

qui, 20; after qui, preceded by a noun followed by

des, 21

after un de ceux qui, 22

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 THF, 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

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VERBS (SYNTAX OF):

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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 être, 59; neuter verbs, 60; verbs which take

avoir, 61

USE OF THE MOODS AND TENSES.

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 avoir 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

conditional for the future, 88; subjunctive or condi-

ib.

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tional, 89; other form of the conditional, 90; im-

perative, 91; s euphonic, 92

ib.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

A TABLE OF ALL THE FRENCH TERMINATIONS, illustrated by

complete words, with figurative pronunciation

La Mort des Templiers

ALPHABETICAL SELECTION OF ENGLISH IDIOMS, translated by

their equivalents in French

A VOCABULARY OF USEFUL WORDS, to be introduced ad

libitum in the Exercises :-

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1. Seasons.

2. Months. 3. Days. 4. The division of

Tableau des monnaies, mesures, et poids anglais
Table of French coins, measures, and weights

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Explanation of the Signs employed in the First and Second

A. 287. 2.

S. 394. 11.

Stages of the Method.

The letter A. refers to ACCIDENCE AND TABLES (the first part of the Book of Reference); the first figures relate to pages, the others to the numbers of the articles, so that the above signs mean,-See ACCIDENCE, page 287, article 2.

See SYNTAX, page 394, article 11.

U. I. 461. 31. See USEFUL INFORMATION, page 461, article 31.

Remark on the words Complement and Regimen.

Some critics having disapproved of the use of the words complement and regimen instead of object, objective, or objective case, we think it necessary to state that these words have, however, been given by good lexicographers, as will be seen in the following quotations.