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:

GRAMMAR

OF THE

FRENCH LANGUAGE;

IN WHICH

THE PRESENT USAGE IS DISPLAYED AGREEABLY TO THE DECISIONS OF

THE FRENCH ACADEMY. BY M. DE LEVIZAC. I: P

WITH

NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS,

AND WITH THE ADDITION OF

A COMPLETE TREATISE

ON THE

GENDERS OF FRENCH NOUNS,

AS ALSO WITH THE ADDITION OF

ALL THE FRENCH VERBS,

BOTH REGULAR AND IRREGULAR, CONJUGATED AFFIRMATIVELY--NEGATIVELY
-INTERROGATIVELY-AND NEGATIVELY AND INTERROGATIVELY.

BY A. BOLMAR,

PRINCIPAL OF THE WEST CHESTER ACADEMY, AND AUTHOR OF SEVERAL WORKS TO
FACILITATE THE ACQUIREMENT OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.

LIBRARY

A NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

OF TER

UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

NEW YORK:
SHELDON & COMPANY,

ENTERED according to the act of the Congress of the United States, A D. 1834, by ANTHONY BOLMAR, in the office of the Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Table of Dipthongs......

8

Observation on the Pronunciation of a in mare and è in mère..... 10

List of Nouns ending with eur for the masculine, and eure for the

feminine

...

32

List of Nouns ending with eur for the masculine, and rice for the

feminine

36

List of Nouns ending with eur for the masculine, and which forın

their feminine variously..

38

Of Numbers

39

..

Formation of the plural of French Substantives or Nouns........

Formation of the plural of Compound Nouns.......

39

....

41

CHAPTER II.

Of the Definite Article.

Elision of the Article

Contraction of the Article...

Cases in which Contraction does not take place.

General Rule of the Article.

Of the Article in a Partitive Sense

Of the Adjective ...

46

Of the Formation of the Feminine of French Adjectives......... 46

Of the Formation of the plural of the French Adjectives.............

If the Degrees of Signification of French Adjectives

51

54

iii

Agreement of the Adjective with the Substantive.

57

When the Adjective relates to two Substantives Singular of the same

Gender

57

When the Adjective relates to two Substantives Singular of differ

ent Genders

58

Pronominal Adjectives relating to one Person expressed.

Pronominal Adjectives relating to many Persons expressed.

Pronominal Adjectives relating to one Person understood

Pronominal Adjectives relating to many Persons understood

Of the Relative Pronouns

..

61

61

61

61

64

64

65

66

66

Of the Verbs

74

See at the end of the Verbs for a Table of the Contents of the