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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

Of accents

: .

by Chapter II. Of orthography

of punctuation

Of capital letters

An easy method of learning Spanish feminine

L

words ending in ad, and in English in у

ib.

ib.

2

3

ib.

6

ib.

ib.

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How to distinguish a noun feminine from a mas-
culine

15

Observation

16

Of augmentatives

17

Of diminutives

ib.

CHAPTER III. Of adjectives

Observation

19

Of comparatives and superlatives

20

Comparatives and superlatives irregularly formed 21

Of the cardinal numbers

ib.

Observations upon the cardinal numbers

24

Of the ordinal numbers

25

CHAPTER IV. Of
pronouns

26

Of personal pronouns

ib.

Declension of personal pronouns

27

Declension of the reciprocal pronouns

30

Of compound pronouns

of possessive pronouns

ib.

Of demonstrative pronouns

'33

Of cuyo and cuya

35

Of pronouns relative and interrogative

36

CHAPTER V. Of verbs

38

Definition of verbs

ib.

Of the moods and tenses of verbs

40

Conjugation of the auxiliary verb HABER, to have 41

Conjugation of the irregular verb TENER, to have

or to hold

16

Conjugation of the auxiliary verbs SER O ESTAR,

to be

-51

Observation upon the verls ser and estar 56.

of the regular conjugations

ib.

An alphabetical list of regular verbs in ar

60

The second conjugation of regular verl's in er

A set of regular verbs of the second conjugation 66

ib.

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