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FRENCH GRAMMAR.

WORKS BY O. C. ANGOVILLE.

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A Complete Treatise ON FRENCH GRAMMAR;
Illustrated by numerous Exercises; 2 Vols., 12-mo.

The same Treatise ON FRENCH GRAMMAR;
Third edition, abridged; 1 Vol., 12-mo.

Vocabulaire DE VERBES FRANÇAIS & ANGLAIS; Comparés ensemble dans leur Régime, et accompagnés d'Exercises; 1 Vol., 12-mo.

Choir de Drames Francais;

OUVRAGE CLASSIQUE, À L'USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE ANGLAISE; Third edition; 1 Vol., 12-mo.

In these moral Plays, there is not a sentiment conveyed, which might cause religion or modesty to blush.

Manuel de Conversation Francaise;

OR PROGRESSIVE DIALOGUES ON FAMILIAR AND USEFUL TOPICS; ADAPTED ΤΟ PUPILS IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM, AND TO ENGLISH TOURISTS ON THE CONTINENT.

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PREFACE.

THE only efficacious method of learning a foreign language in a foreign land, is to learn it grammatically.

This self-evident axiom induced me, some years ago, to compose a Complete Treatise on French Grammar, the first and second editions of which are now exhausted.

Convinced still more of the truth of my axiom, and encouraged by the flattering introduction of my Grammar among numerous pupils and in many respectable schools, but, above all, in the most ancient college of England-the College of Winchester-I beg to offer my THIRD EDITION to the public.

Far from envying the transient success of several diminutive works, more fit for a nursery than for a school, and whose only merit consists in teaching a few unconnected sentences, I publish this third edition complete and ample, as was the former.

Yet, in this complete code of grammatical rules, I have not forgotten the beginner; for I have carefully preserved a compendious vocabulary of substantives, classed under separate titles, each containing a series of nouns appropriate to the subject treated upon, so that the youngest pupil may exercise his memory with the names of the most useful and necessary things. Moreover, he will find in my book introductory exercises which will easily and gradually lead him on to the first and simple rules of grammar.

The formation of the feminine and of the plural in adjectives is reduced to such exact rules, that even Frenchmen will find

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