Cases in which Substantives are preceded by the Preposition de or à, either Cases in which a Substantive compounded with another word in English is preceded, in French, by de or à, either alone or with the Article...... 28 b PAGE A List of Adjectives which require à or au, à la, or aux, before the words depending on them ...... A List of Adjectives and Participles which require de or du, de la, or des, before the word depending on them...... 44 .... 45 Observations on several Adjectives and Participles which require different Prepositions before their Regimen, according to the sense in which they are used...... Of the Adjectives of Dimension, high, wide, deep, long.... Observations on lui, elle, and eux Of the Supplementary Pronouns le, la, les Of the Pronouns myself, thyself, himself, herself, &c. General Order in which the Pronouns come before the Verb, when several are 60 ib. ib. 62 65 68 75 79 ib. 84 87 88 96 102 107 Place of the Regimen of Verbs, when a Pronoun, a Noun, or a Verb Several Lists of Verbs, pointing out the different Prepositions which they require, and also various Lists of the Verbs which require no Preposition with observations Use of the Preposition pour before a Verb in the Present of the Infinitive Of the Subjunctive ..... Cases in which the Subjunctive is required..... Cases in which the Past Participle is declinable, and in which it is indeclinable ib. Arrangement of the Rhymes...... Of the Expressions which cannot be admitted into Poetry 214 .... 215 Of the Syllables which cannot enter into a Verse, or the hiatus and elision.... ib. A List of the ancient and modern Names of the most remarkable Nations, Empires, &c. which are not spelt alike in French and English....... Several Series of the Adjectives, Participles, Verbs, Adverbs and adverbial Phrases, Prepositions, and Conjunctions, which are most generally 254 PART 3. OF SYNTAX. THE third part of grammar is Syntax, which is the regular construction of the different parts of speech, conformably to the rules of grammar and the genius of a language. Construction supposes three things in every language, the union of words, their agreement, and their government:-these three objects will be found fully explained in the following rules, which must be carefully studied. CHAPTER I. OF THE ARTICLE. WE shall consider in this chapter the different circumstances in which the Article is or is not used in French, whether it be employed or not in English. ARTICLE I. Cases in which the Article is used in French. §. 1. FIRST GENERAL RULE.-The Definite Article-Le, la, l', les, du, de la, de l', des, or au, à la, à l', aux, according to the import of the sentence, is used and repeated in French before every Substantive taken in a general or particular sense; that is to say, before every Substantive designating either a whole species of things or beings, a kind of things, a determinate thing, or a private individual, and agrees with it in Gender and Number, whether any Article be employed in English or not: as-Ladies are amiable, les dames sont aimables; French silk is very dear in England, les soieries de France sont très-chères en Angleterre; vice is odious, le vice est odieux; virtue is amiable, la vertu est aimable; the gentleman, lady, and young lady are gone, le monsieur, la dame, et la demoiselle sont partis; glory, riches, nobleness, VOL. II. B |