Excerpt from A Grammar of the Spanish Language, Vol. 1 of 2: With Practical Exercises We shall first consider words as sounds, show the letters that form them, and succinctly give the rules most proper to fix their pronunciation. Considering them afterwards as signs of our thoughts, we shall examine their nature, and their accidental variations, the order they observe between themselves, and the rules of their union. Most grammarians treat separately upon the rules of syntax. It has appeared to us more methodical, precise and simple, to place these rules in the chapters relating to each kind of words. From this it follows, however, that the examples we give for the understanding of the rules sometimes precede the knowledge, which 1 ey suppose of certain parts of speech. But those examples are always accompanied by the translation which greatly diminishes a slight inconvenience, which a second reading of the grammar will remove, and which is abundantly compensa ted by the advantage of avoiding frequent repetitions and references, a multiplicity of which fatigues and discourages beginners. 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.