The Student's French Grammar: A Practical and Historical Grammar of the French Language

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John Murray, 1883 - French language - 458 pages

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Contents

Learned elements in French
10
French in the seventeenth century
11
French in the nineteenth century
12
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 23 Synthetic and Analytic Languages
14
French words of Celtic origin
15
SECTION PAGE 26 French words of Teutonic origin
16
Earliest manuscripts in Lingua Romana
17
DIALECTS and PATOIS
18
French words of Provençal origin
23
French words of Spanish origin
25
French words from American Colonies
26
Influence of the TONIC ACCENT on the Formation of words
27
Permutation
28
Subtraction and addition of letters
33
COMPOSITION
35
DERIVATION
37
BOOK IIPHONOLOGY 43142
39
Division of words into syllables
40
4851 Graphic accents
41
Tonic or force accent in a word
42
Tonic or force accent in a phrase
43
Division of syllables
44
ETRE
45
Words in English with French accentuation
47
SECTION
49
u
55
Diphthongs
62
r
79
129
82
u preceded by g and
84
Mouillé consonants
85
en a and
90
Plural of Proper names
96
Substantives signifying things WITHOUT
102
172 Masculine Nouns ending in be
106
Masculine Nouns ending in ce
107
Masculine Nouns ending in ge
108
Masculine Nouns ending in le
109
Masculine Nouns ending in me
110
Masculine Nouns ending in re
111
Masculine Nouns ending in se
112
Masculine Nouns ending in ue
113
Comparison of Adjectives
114
Ordinal Numerals
115
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 196 le la les
116
le this or that 17
117
Rules for formation of Feminine of Adjectives
118
Beau bel
119
Grand mère grand mères
120
Defective Adjectives
121
as a mark of the plural
124
Z final in Substantives and Adjectives
126
214
127
216
130
220
132
222
133
224
134
Monsieur
135
Ordinals
138
Difference of gender from a difference of origin
143
Feminine Nouns ending in
148
Feminine Nouns ending in
150
PRONOUNS 279322
165
Feminine Nouns ending in
167
Adjective Interrogative Pronouns
171
Personal Pronouns in Old French
174
Ce adjectival and substantival uses
180
VERBS 323420
186
English of the French Tenses
193
Variations of spelling connected with e mute
223
how classified
224
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
225
227
227
Peindre plaindre poindre
237
The four Conjugations
238
Regular and Irregular Verbs
239
The four Latin and four French Conjugations 367 Tenses formed from the Latin 368 Future Indicative and Present Conditional
240
s final in 1st person singular
241
t final in 3rd person singular
242
Saillir and compounds
248
Courir
254
Masculine Nouns ending in ée
255
Formation of Adverbs
277
Comparison of Adverbs
279
Jamais etc
280
Negation
281
PREPOSITIONS 436438
283
Prepositional expressions governing the Genitive
284
Formation of Prepositions
285
CONJUNCTIONS 439441
286
INTERJECTIONS 442 List of Interjections
288
The Adjective and its Noun
291
99
297
458
303
MOODS 459484
311
Verbs requiring à before Infinitive
317
Subjunctive in Principal sentence
323
SECTION PAGE 474 Infinitive
324
Examples
326
Examples
327
Examples
333
A voir
335
Observations
337
Examples
338
when employed instead of INDICATIVE and CONDITIONAL
339
Adjectival Sentences
340
Adverbial Sentences
341
Concessive Sentences
344
TENSES S 485494
345
Perfect Present
346
Simple Past
347
Perfect Past
349
Simple Future
350
SUBORDINATE SENTENCE 494 Sequence of Tenses
351
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Sequence of Tensescontinued
352
ARTICLES 495498
355
Substantives employed in an indeterminate sense
356
Substantives employed in a determinate sense
358
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 498 Various observations on uses of Article
359
PRONOUNS 499511
360
Some uses of celui etc
361
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 501 Uses of tu and vous
362
Vous with Singular Adjective
364
Soi
365
Ethic Dative
366
En
367
368
Dont
369
Introductory Remarks
370
Avoir and Etre with Intransitive Verbs
371
Why être is used with Reflexive Verbs
372
Repartir and répartir rire mettre
373
Position of Adverbs
375
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 516 Position of Adjectives
376
Position of Nouns in Optative Sentences
377
Position of y and en
378
PROSODY
379
The Full Accent at the si syllable
381
The Full Accent at the twelfth syllable
382
The Minor Accents
386
Number of syllables in a line
388
Hiatus in verse
391
Dialogue
393
Poetical licenses
394
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 530 Hiatus in verse
395
e mute in verse
398
Orthography of Quotations
399
Why sometimes the Nominative has been given in derivation and sometimes the Accusative
401
Old French quotations rendered into Modern French
403
Dire
406
Gésir
412
ANALYTICAL INDEX
413
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416
318
432
193
435
105
436
60
441
198
447
62
448
241
452
242
454
247
455
68
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