QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION ON ACCIDENCE.

N.B.—The easy questions might be answered vivâ voce; but it would be better to have recourse to writing when they become more difficult.

ARTICLE.

1. Name the masculine singular article. Name the feminine. Give four examples.

2. What is LES?

3. If a noun begins with a vowel or mute н, what article do you use for THE ?

4. And before a consonant or aspirated н? 5. What is called "elision"?

partitive articles.

When is that article used? Name the

6. What do you call "contraction"? Name the contracted articles. 7. Translate OF THE and TO THE before GARÇON, HAMEAU, FILLE,

HACHE.

8. Translate the same before AMI, HABITANT, ENSEIGNE, HABITude. 9. Name the indefinite article, masculine and feminine.

10. What is the plural of the KNIVES; GOOD KNIVES.

above? Translate: A KNIFE; (some) Explain the latter.

NOUN.

11. Name two family names and two Christian names of the masculine, and two of the feminine.

12. Name (prefixing the proper article) two names of mountains and two

of rivers.

13. Do you use an article before a man or a woman's name, and before the

name of a town?

14. What is the gender of a noun of town, river, mountain? Name

exceptions.

15. Name six professions, and give the names of six trades. (Like:

l'avocat; le serrurier.)

16. Give the names of six titles. 17. Name four collective nouns.

(Like: le roi, le prince, le pair.)
(Like: la multitude.)

D

18. Name four collective general nouns. (Like: la foule, &c.) 19. Name four nouns collective partitive. (Like: une masse, &c.) 20. What is the gender of French nouns in ALE, OLE, URE, ÈRE, EUR, RRE, LLE, IE, IÉ, UE, ION, Be, ce, de, fe, NE, PE, SE, TE, té, ve, HE, AISON?

21. What is the gender of TREES, METALS, VIRTUES, COLOURS? Exceptions.

22. What is the gender of nouns ending in AISON, and in TÉ? Exceptions (saison, liberté).

TION and ION? Exceptions

ALE, OLE, URE? Excep

EUR, ADE, ANCE, ENCE? Ex-
AGE, ESSE, ANSE, ENSE?

Exceptions (rage, paresse, danse, &c.).

tions (étude, étourderie, &c.).

UDE, RIE, and ISE? Excep

28. Mention the regular feminine of some nouns. lionne; l'épicier, l'épicière, &c.)

29. Name some nouns with an irregular feminine. jument; le duc, la duchesse.)

(Like: le lion, la

(Like: le cheval, la

30. There are proper and common nouns; what distinguishes them in the spelling? (le loup; la Tamise, &c.)

31. Give the general rule of the formation of the plural of nouns. Examples.

32. How do you form the plural of nouns ending in S, X, Z? Examples. 33. What is the gender of nouns in S, in Z, and in X?

34. How do you form the plural of nouns in AU, EAU, EU? Excep

tions.

35. What is the gender of the above nouns? Exceptions.

36. How do you form the plural of nouns in AL? Exceptions: how

formed?

37. What is the gender of the above nouns?

38. What is the plural of nouns in OU? Exceptions: how formed? 39. What is the plural of nouns in AIL? Exceptions: how formed?

40. What is the gender of nouns in OU, and in AIL?

41. Give the plural of ŒIL, CIEL, AÏEUL? When do you use that plural? 42. When do you form the plural of the above by adding S to the singular?

43. Has one of the above nouns a feminine?

44. How do you form the plural of a compound noun formed of two nouns ?

50. Give the plural of UN RENDEZ-VOUS; UN TIRE-BOUCHON; UN TIMBRE

POSTE; UN CURE-DENTS; UN PORTE-MONNAIE.

N.B.-In compound nouns, when does GARDE take S, and when does it remain invariable?

ADJECTIVE.

51. How is the feminine of adjectives formed? Examples.

52. How do you form the feminine of adjectives ending in E mute ?

53.

ET? Exceptions in ET.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

59.

derived from a verb?

60.

not derived from a verb ?

EL, EIL, EN, ON,

x?

F?

ER?

GU?

ÉRIEUR ?

EUR and TEUR,

EUR and TEur,

61. Give the feminine of BEAU; NOUVEAU; FOU; MOU; VIEUX; and name another masculine form of those adjectives.

67. What is the feminine of nouns of professions, like: POËTE; ÉCRIVAIN;

AUTEUR; DOCTEUR; PROFESSEUR?

68. Give the feminine of GOUVERNEUR, SERVITEUR, DÉFENSEUR, IMPosteur, MarÉCHAL, PAIR, CHEF.

69. Give the feminine of PÉCHEUR and vengeur.

70. When is GRAND spelt GRAND' before a feminine noun? Say all you know about that.

71. How do you form the plural of adjectives? Examples.

77. LE CHIEN ET LE CHAT SONT AMIS. Why AMIS?

agreement.

Give the rule of

Give the rule.

78. LE LOUP ET LA POULE SONT GRAS. Why GRAS? 79. LE SALADE ET LA MOUTARDE SONT BONNES. Why BONNES? Name

the rule.

80. LE MARTEAU, LA VRILLE ET LA LIME SONT CHERS.

Give the rule.

81. Translate: sweet; sweeter; sweetest.

Why CHERS?

82. What do you call positive, comparative, and superlative ? 83. What kind of comparative is PLUS BEAU?

84. 85.

MOINS BEAU?

AUSSI BEAU?

86. In what case can you use SI instead of AUSSI before an adjective? 87. That orange is sweeter than I thought. What little word will precede the verb I thought?

88. Give the comparative of BON; MAUVAIS; PETIT.

89. Compare the above with the adverbs BIEN; MAL; PEU.

90. Which of the above adjectives and adverbs can be used with PLUS?

91. How many kinds of superlatives are there?

92. Give examples of the adjectives in the superlative relative.

93.

94. Name the irregular superlatives.

absolute.

95. How do you render IN in French after a superlative?

96. What are the demonstrative adjectives? When do you use CET? possessive adjectives? When are MON, TON, SON used before a feminine noun ?

97.

98.

99.

indefinite adjectives? Name some of them. When do you sound the S in TOUS?

numeral adjectives?

100. Name ten numeral cardinal adjectives, and ten numeral ordinal

adjectives.

101. Of what gender are numeral adjectives?

102. Remark on CINQ, SIX, SEPT, HUIT, NEUF, DIX, when placed before a noun beginning with a consonant or a vowel.

103. Also on the pronunciation of ONZE.
104. What do you know of VINGT and CENT?
105. How is 1000 spelt in the date of years?
106. How are numeral ordinals formed?

107. Translate: the 1st of January; the 10th of August; and remark on the ordinal used for the date of months.

108. What adjectives do you use speaking of kings, like Henry I., Charles II., William IV.?

109. When do you use SECOND, and when DEUXIÈME ?

render HALF by MOITIÉ and when by DEMI?

When do you

110. Name numeral adverbs, and translate ONCE; TWICE; THREE TIMES. A dozen; about twenty.

PRONOUNS.

111. How many kinds of pronouns are there? Name them.

112. Name the personal pronouns when subjects of the verb.

113. Name them when direct objects, and say where you place them in a

sentence.

114. Name them when indirect objects, and remark on their place.

115. When are the personal pronouns, direct or indirect objects, placed after the verb?

116. When are they placed after the verb when subjects?

117. What is called DISJUNCTIVE personal pronoun? Give examples. 118. What does LUI mean? Translate: I give him; he gives her. 119. Translate: It to me; it to thee; it to us; it to you before a verb.

It to me; it to us; after a verb.

120. Translate: it to him; it to her; it to them; before and after a verb.

121. Translate: 119 and 120, IT being feminine.

122. Translate: THEM to me; THEM to us; THEM to you; THEM to him; THEM to them.

123. How do you render of him; of her; of it; some; from it; of them; thence?

124. What is the place of the verb used with the above personal

pronouns ?