Excerpt from French Grammar: Or Plain Instructions for the Learning of French No Grammar can pretend to teach us every thing in a language; and this may be said of the present work, as of every other. Yet Cobbett's French Grammar, like his English Grammar, while affording the ordinary means of a Manual for the Teacher, may be said to give an insight to the language, and, consequently, an encouragement for the Student to persevere, which are to be had from no other publication. Those who are without a Teacher, and depending on their own industry unaided, will meet with nothing answering their purpose like this work; and the best evidence of its merits, in explaining the principles and the main difficulties of the French language, is to be seen in the fact, that the Editors of some established books for teaching French are found to adopt Cobbett's mode of clearing up those things which are the most troublesome to comprehend. In revising this, the Eleventh Edition, my chief business has been that of correcting certain inaccuracies, without, however, in any way altering the Author's arrangement of the several matters, or his manner of treating them. Here and there it appeared useful to add a further illustration. But such additions will all be seen separate from the original text, within brackets, thus, [ ], and generally with the word Note prefixed to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.