Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-28

t by them in the fullest measure.
Y time have instruction by mail by
n Department. Arizona Republican,
g is hard-arguir. to argue; ell aguero,
the omen
>. The uses of the acute accent may
be summed up as follows: (a) It serves
I arbitrarily TO designate the proposition
a, to. and the two second forms of the
/ conjunctions, e, and u, or. instead of
and 0, the usual forms. (b) 1t serves
to distinguish many words Of the same
form. but of different meaning-aun,
yet, still, from aun, even; ell, he, from
/ ell. the; mas. more, from mar. but:
t Sc, / know, from Sc, ones self; tn, thus,
! from tn, thy, and many others. The
, interrogative words are thus distin-
guished from the relatives similarly
spelled-cual, what, which? from cUa1.
which; que, what? from que which,
that; quien who? from quien. who
I (c) 1t serves to mark the stressed or
tonic vowel whenever there is a devil
alton from the rules of syllable stress
or accent-el periodico, the newspaper:
Ia practica. practice; Ell azacar. sugar;
Ell a-rbol the tree.
C. The stressed syllable or vowel is
usually determined by one of the fol-
! lowing rules:
4. The last syllable receives the
stress in words ending in i or or in
consonant other than II or s; buscar. to
seek; querer, to viii or love, and all
other present infinitives: ell papel, the
paper, etc.
b. The next to the last syllable re-
ceives the accent or stress in words
ending in a, e, or in a diphthong-eI
j. L.
Inca. the line.
:. In the use of capitals the two lam
suages in the main agree. But The
pronoun 70. I. begins with a small let
ter. unless it introduces a quotation or
follows a period. Proper adjectives
are begun with capitals only when en-
ployed as nouns of persons.
s. The noun, article adjective pro-
noun and verb are variable, or capable
OF infection. and must have much at
tentiOn from beginning to end, With
frequent review. The invariable parts
of speech are the adverb, proposition.
conjunction, intersection
8. The articles agree in gender and
number with their nouns. except when
for euphony's sake el replaces la befo.e
a feminine noun beginning with ac-
certed a.
are in the singular Ell for the masculine
and la for the feminine; in the plural
the masculine form is los. the feminine
las. The English word the translates
all these forms
a. A neuter article. 10, which has 10
plural. is used with an adjective con-
sidered as an abstract quaHty-lo
bueno. 10 verdadero y 10 bello. the
good. the true and the beautiful
b. One form of the definite article,
ell. is contracted with the propositions
de, of and a. to-deI zapatero. of the
shoemaker: al zapato, to the shoe
c. The definite article is widely en-
ployed where English omits it. as with
general or abstract nouns-la fe, Ia
esperanza V Ia carload, faith, hope and
charity; also with most names of coun-
tries in formal or precise style-el en-
bajador de la Francia, the ambassador
of France; la Espana merfdionsI.
southern Spain.
II. The indefinite article un, una. a
or an, is used with singular nouns only
The forms unos, unas, meaning some
or several, are indefinite pronouns. NOT
articles.
(a) The indefinite article is general
ly omitted before an appositive and
before an unmodified predicate noun
OF nationality or profession after ser.
to be: Vera Cruz. puerto de Mejico.
Vera Cruz, a seaport of Mexico: yo
tambfen soy pintor. I. too, am paint
or.
u. The noun is infected only in TAX
ing an or es as its plural ending. It
takes s, if it ends in an unaccented
vowel other than Y; but es. if it ends
in consonant, in y, or in an accented
vowel other than t.
(a) The grammatical gender Of
nouns depends chiefly on natural gen
der but partly on the ending Thus
the endings o and or mark the mason
line gender while the endings a. dad.
feminine. Latin and Greek masculines
and neuters have mostly become mas
culine
Is. The noun is used in all the COM
mon constructions: subject, object and |
predicate after verbs. and object of
But the proposition Il
serves not only in the sense OF TO. but
also as a mere sign mot to be trans /
Iated) that the noun following is a di-
rect object and represents 4 definite
person, OF an animal or thing persona /
fed
The following sentences illustrate the /
peculiar construction just mentioned. /
as well as the preceding rules concern /
ing nouns and articles. The figures in /
refer to the rule which the |
preceding word illustrates: the brack- |
cts enclose words to be supplied in /
translation:
1. Tn buen padre quiere a d3) Sus !
hfjos. a good father loves his children. /