The Popular educator Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...of representing the distinction of the sexes. There arc consequently two genders, the masculine for the names of male beings, as man, lion; and the feminine for the names of female beings, as woman, lioness. Substantives representing inanimate beings ought to have no gender; yet custom has assigned to them, but arbitrarily, both genders. Thus, soldi, chateau, pays, have been made of the masculine gender, and lune, maison, ville, of the feminine gender." Tunis Ecoliers Attenttfs (Liverpool): The imperfect past tense 'avals is employed to signify / was having, or / used to have; it leaves the beginning, middle, and end of the action undetermined. The definite past tense feus. Is employed to signify / luul, or did have; it denotes an action completed and entirely past.--Edith M--Ie, (Oxfordshire): Du, dcs.de la, are used before substantives in a partitive 9ense, that is, to denote a part or a portion of the persons or things spoken of: thus, a a du papier,--that is, quelquc papier; rows avezde la fortune,--that is, qnelque fortune; nous posscdons des amis,--that is, quchjue amis. The article is omitted and da alone is used when the substantive taken in a partitive sense is preceded by an adjective; thus, donncz moi de Ion jxxm; je bote d'excellente Here; il possede de bdks maieons. But in the second part of the French lessons more specific rules will be given--J. W.S. (Glasgow): The French exercises are so constructed that with a very little perseverance, it will be seen that the English exercises form a sort of key to the French, and the French to the English.--P. M. K. (Greenock): There are three kinds of negation in French: ne, nepas, and nepoint; thus, je n'ose, je n'ose pas, and je n'ose point; all signify / dare not; but ne is the feeblest negation,...