Excerpt from A Short French Grammar Point of view. Nearly all French grammars that I know are constructed without regard to the intelligence, habits, and previous training of the American schoolboy; most of them, indeed, are little more than collections of rules taken from French grammars written by Frenchmen for French children. Hence our pupils, on beginning the language, are confronted with a strange style, a foreign conception of grammatical principles, and a new, confusing, and often senseless terminology; for a long ...
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Excerpt from A Short French Grammar Point of view. Nearly all French grammars that I know are constructed without regard to the intelligence, habits, and previous training of the American schoolboy; most of them, indeed, are little more than collections of rules taken from French grammars written by Frenchmen for French children. Hence our pupils, on beginning the language, are confronted with a strange style, a foreign conception of grammatical principles, and a new, confusing, and often senseless terminology; for a long while they cannot get their bearings, and the knowledge they have gained through the study of English is of no benefit to them. Experience has convinced me that the use of such expressions as partitive article, past definite, and past indefinite is a source of endless misunderstanding, and almost invariably causes the absolute waste of a great deal of valuable time. I have tried to make my book, as far as possible, a natural continuation of the ordinary grammar school course. At every step I have taken pains to compare French with English, so that students may readily grasp the character istics of the new language and understand more thoroughly than ever before the structure of their own. The common nomenclature of English grammar has been used as far as it goes; for the imperfect and preterit I have ventured to coin new names, descriptive past and narrative past, which designate the nature of both and the func tion of each. The French equivalents of the English potential mood have been carefully explained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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