SECTION V.-FRENCH.

1. PRONUNCIATION.

1. WRITE the French alphabet, the vowels in one line, and the consonants in another; name also the letters in English not used in French.

2. How many accents are there in French? Of what use are they? Write them, and give instances of words in which they are used.

3. Of what use is the apostrophe? Give examples of words in which it is used; also of the cedilla and the diœresis.

4. Give the English of the following words :

5. Give instances in which a and e are not elided. Are the final e, es, and ent in verbs ever sounded?

6. Give instances of words ending in a consonant, joined to the next word, when it commences with a vowel or h mute.

7. Are there any instances in which the final consonant is not to be joined to the next vowel? Give examples.

8. How are g, f, s, and a sounded when they precede vowels? How do you sound ch, th, ti, ph, qu, and x?

9. Give instances of the last consonant of the ten first cardinal numbers, sounded and silent, when these words appear alone, or before a vowel.

10. If i precedes l or ll, or g precedes n, what sound have they, and in what English word is there a similar sound?

11. Name words with the following terminations, and give a description of the pronunciation in English as nearly as possible :

12. Give instances of words in which ll, preceded by i, has not a liquid sound.

13. Write the principal words in which the last consonant is pronounced.

14. Write words in which c, f, l, r, and x are mute.

2. FRENCH GRAMMAR. I.

THE ARTICLES.

15. How many parts of speech are there in the French language? Write them. How many are declinable, and how many indeclinable? 16. What is an article? How many are there in French? Name them, with their English meaning.

17. Of what words are du, des, au, and aux contractions? Decline the definite and indefinite articles, and show how the genitive and dative cases are expressed in French.

18. In what instances do we make use of the preposition de, instead of the article du? Give instances.

19. Give instances of the use of a or au, instead of the definite le, la, les in French.

20. Give examples of the use of the definite article in French, and not in English.

21. Mark the difference between the use of the article, with several nouns together.

22. Give instances of the omission of the definite article in French, with ordinal numbers, in quotations and before names of sovereigns. 23. Mark the difference between French and English in dating a letter, and in numeral adjectives with names of sovereigns.

24. What word in French, but not in English, follows words of quantity, scarcity, or exclusion? as

A. Beaucoup.

B. Peu.

C. Point.

Give instances.

25. How many kinds of nouns are there in the French language, and how many genders have they? Show that gender has nothing to do with sex.

26. Of what gender are the adjectives and verbs substantively used, the names of seasons, the months of the year, the days of the week, metals, colours, winds, and mountains?

27. What is the general rule to form the plural of French nouns ? What are the exceptions to the general rule? Give a few examples. 28. How is the plural of nouns ending in au, eu, and ou formed? Write a few examples.

29. How do you form the plural of nouns ending in the singular in al or ail; and what are the exceptions to that rule?

30. Give instances of the difference between the French and English custom in the use of capital letters.

3. FRENCH GRAMMAR. II.

SUBSTANTIVES AND ADJECTIVES.

31. State the rule for the agreement of the adjective with its substantive, and give instances.

32. Of what gender are the adjectives ending by e mute?

33. Form the feminine of the following adjectives :

34. How do you form the feminine of the adjectives which end in el,

eil, ien, on, and et? Give instances, and name exceptions.

35. How do you form the feminine of the adjectives which end in

the masculine by ƒ, x, eur, eau, and c? Give instances.

36. Write the masculine of fine, new, old, soft, and foolish.

37. Give the feminine of the following adjectives:

mou, vieux, frais, favori, public, long, mauvais, doux, faux.

38. State a rule for the place of the adjectives, and write a few of them which are always placed before their noun.

39. Give instances of adjectives having a different meaning, according to their position before or after the noun.

40. Name the degrees of comparison, and state how you express the degrees of equality, of superiority, and inferiority; and instances. 41. Write the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives and adverbs:

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42. When two numerals are joined together, which goes the first in French?

43. How is the word thousand expressed in French?

44. How many kind of pronouns are there in the French language? Write the personal pronouns, the conjunctive and disjunctive possessive pronouns.

45. Write the relative possessive pronouns. In what instances are the masculine pronouns mon, ton, and son used before a feminine noun for ma, ta, sa? Give instances.

46. Write the French demonstrative pronouns. When do you make use of ce and cet? Give examples.

47. Write the indefinite pronouns. How do you translate the following sentences:

A. It is reported that he is dead.

B. Everybody is here.

4. FRENCH GRAMMAR. III.

VERBS, &c.

48. How many kinds of verbs are there in French? What are the verbs avoir and être called, and of what use are they?

49. Into how many conjugations may French verbs be divided? Name the infinitive endings in each conjugation.

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51.

A. Write down the first person singular of all the prin cipal tenses of a verb of the first conjugation.

B. Second conjugation.

C. Third conjugation.

D. Fourth conjugation.

A. Decline the reflective verb se promener in the present, preterite, and future tenses.

B. The impersonal falloir.

C. The impersonal pleuvoir.

52. What auxiliary is used in the compound tenses of the reflected verbs? Give instances.

53.

A. Which is the place of the pronouns when you conju

gate verbs affirmatively?

B. Negatively?

C. Interrogatively?

54. Express the following negatives with a verb :—

55. Have the French any emphatic auxiliary like do or did, as I do love, I did love, &c.? Do they make use of the participle present as in the English expressions, I am speaking, I was singing, &c.?

56. How many moods are there in the French verbs? Name them, and state what they express.

57. What is tense? and how many tenses are there really? How many are used, and what especial time does each express?

58. The English often use the present tense after the conjunctions, when, after, and as soon as, when they want to express a future event. What tense should always be used in French? Give a few examples.

59. Of what mood do we make use after the verbs craindre, nier, désirer, douter, and vouloir; after unique and seul; after superlative and determinate pronouns, quelque, personne, pas un, qui que ce soit, and aucun ; and after the following conjunctions?