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ADVERTISEMENT

1810

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE rapid circulation of this Grammar is some proof of its superiority over contemporary publications; and while the Author acknowledges with gratitude its adoption by several eminent Teachers in this country, he is no less under obligations to those Merchants and Traders who have increased its circulation by the export of large numbers to the Caraccas, as well as to the Peninsula; where the Author has the satisfaction of knowing that his Grammar has not only proved an advantageous speculation to them, but has also been found highly acceptable and useful to the classes of Learners, namely the Commercial and Military, for whom it is more particularly adapted.

The honourable and rapidly increasing connexion between the British and Spanish Nations will, it is presumed, render its utility permanent: and with a view to the increase of that utility, as well as to manifest his sense of public favour, the Author has diligently revised his work throughout, and made such corrections and improvements therein as he deemed it capable of receiving.

London, Oct. 1, 1810.

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CHAPTER I. Of pronunciation

Of the Spanish alphabet

Of the vowels

Of the diphthongs

Of the consonants, and their pronunciation

Observations on the letters G, J, LL, N, X

Öf accents

CHAPTER II. Of orthography

Of punctuation

Of capital letters

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An easy method of learning Spanish feminine

words ending in ad, and in English in y

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Of comparatives and superlatives,

Comparatives and superlatives irregularly formed

Of the cardinal numbers

Observations upon the cardinal numbers

Of the ordinal numbers

CHAPTER IV. Of pronouns

Of personal pronouns

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20

21

ib.

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25

26

ib.

Declension of personal pronouns

Declension of the reciprocal pronouns

Of compound pronouns

Of possessive pronouns

Of demonstrative pronouns

Of cuyo and cuya

Of pronouns relative and interrogative

CHAPTER V. Of verbs

Definition of verbs

Of the moods and tenses of verbs

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30

ib.

ib.

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38

ib.

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Conjugation of the auxiliary verb HABER, to have 41

Conjugation of the irregular verb TENER, to have

ur to hold

Conjugation of the auxiliary verbs SER OF ESTAR,

to be

Observation upon the verbs SER and ESTAR

Of the regular conjugations

An alphabetical list of regular verbs in ar

The second conjugation of regular verbs in er

A set of regular verbs of the second conjugation