An elementary grammar of the Italian Language

INDEX

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PREFACE - p. III

INTRODUCTION - p. V

PRONUNCIATION - p. 1

ACCENT - p. 5

READING EXERCISE - p. 9

Nouns - p. 11

Definite Article - p. 13

Personal Pronouns; Auxiliary Verb to have - p. 14

Formation of the Plural - p. 16

Possessive Pronouns - p. 19

Articles affixed to Prepositions - p. 21

Auxiliary Verb to be - p. 22

Adjectives - p. 24

Verbs, First Conjugation - p. 27

Demonstrative Adjectives - p. 30

Personal Pronouns - p. 32

Indefinite Article - p. 35

Partitive Article- p. 36

Formation of the Plural, continued - p. 38

Months, Days, Seasons - p. 39

Irregular Verbs to go and to give - p. 41

Conjunctive Pronouns- p. 43

Irregular Verbs to make and to stay - p. 46

Use of the Defnite Article - p. 48

Relative Pronouns - p. 51

Demonstrative Pronouns - p. 54

Regular Verbs of the Second Conjugation - p. 55

Omission of the Definite Article -- Interjections - p. 57

Conjunctions - p. 58

Numeral Adjectives - p. 60

Interrogative Pronouns - p. 64

Regular Verbs, Third Conjugation - p. 67

Hours of the Day: Hall past, a quarter past, & quarter of - p. 68

Conjunctive Pronouns, continued - p. 71

Table of Compound Conjunctive Pronouns - p. 73

Remarks on the Regular Verbs - p. 75

Collective and Distributive Numbers - p. 76

Ordinal Numbers - p. 78

Proportional Numbers - p. 79

Irregular Verbs - p. 81

Agreement of Verbs -- Use of the Imperfect and Perfect - p. 86

Comparatives - p. 89

Superlatives - p. 92

Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives - p. 93

Possessive Pronouns, continued - p. 95

Use of the Subjunctive - p. 98

Past Participle - p. 102

Formation of the Plural, continued - p. 105

Augmentatives and Diminutives - p. 108

Adverbs - p. 111

Indefinite Pronouns used substantively for Persons - p. 115

Indefnite Pronouns used substantively for Things - p. 118

Indeinite Pronouns used substantively for Persons and Things - p. 111

Indefinite Pronouns used adjectively for Persons and Things - p. 124

Formation of the Feminine - p. 127

Prepositions di, a - p. 130

Prepositions da, per, infuori - p. 133

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Use of the Third Person Feminine - p. 137

Idiomatic Expressions with the verbs avere, to have, and essere, to be - p. 133

Of the Pronoun si - p. 140

Synonyms: Fear, paura, timore; to rub, strofinate, stropicciare -- Idiomatic Expressions with the Verbs andare, to go, and stare, to stay - p. 141

Ellipses - p. 143

Idiomatic Expressions with the Verb dare, to give - p. 144

Ellipses, continued - p. 146

Idiomatic Espressions with the verb fare, to make - p. 147

Diminution of Words - p. 149

Maxims and Figures of Speech - p. 150

Diminution of Words, continued - p. 152

Maxims and Figures of Speech - p. 153

Transposition of Words - p. 155

Synonyms: Step of & staircase, gradino, scalino - p. 156

Derivation of Words - p. 158

Maxims and Figures - p. 159

Derivation of Words, continued - p. 161

Maxims and Figures - p. 162

Formation of Words - p. 164

Maxims and Figures - p. 165

Maxims and Figures - p. 167

Synonyms: Servant, servitore, servo; devotion, devozione, divozione - p. 168

Maxims and Figures - p. 170

Synonyms: Labor, fatico, travaglio; proud, superbo; haughty,

altiero - p. 171

Maxims and Figures - p. 173

Synonyms: Composition, composizione, componimento; tude, gratitudine, riconoscenza - p. 174

Maxims and Figures - p. 176

Synonyms: Lesf, fronda, foglia; purity, purità, purezza; terror, terrore, spavento - p. 177

Maxims and Figures - p. 179

Synonyms: Lie, menzogna, bugia; light, luce, lume; work, lavoro, opera; to go out, uscire, sortire - p. 181

Maxims and Figures - p. 182

Synonyms: New, nuovo, novello; shame, onta, vergogna - p. 183

Maxims and Figures - p. 185

Synonyms: Crafty, astuto, furbo; first, primo, primiero - p. 186

Maxims and Figures - p. 188

Synonyms: To repeat, ripetere, replicare; relation, relazione, rapporto - p. 189

Idiomatic Expressions - p. 191

Idiomatic Expressions - p. 194

Conjunction of the Auxiliary Verbs to have and to be - p. 197

Infections of the Regular Verbs of the First, Second, and Third Conjugation - p. 199

Irregular Verbs of the First Conjugation - p. 201

Verbe of the Third Conjugation in which the termination isco is indispensable - p. 203

Verbe of the Third Conjugation with the present ending in o or isco - p. 206

List of Irregular Verbs - p. 207

Verbs of the Second Conjugation with the accent on the Penultimate - p. 218

Regular Verbs of the Third Conjugation - p. 218

Exceptional Irregularities of Verbs - p. 219

Masculine Nouns ending in a - p. 228

Nouns ending in co and go which take or reject the h in the Plural - p. 223

Masculine Nouns with two Plurals - p. 224

Nouns ending in co and go which take an h in the Plural, though

preceded by a Vowel - p. 224

Irregular Feminines - p. 225

List of Equivocal Words - p. 225

Extract from Manzoni - p. 227

Extract from Alferi - p. 232