HONOUR FRENCH.

PRELIMINARY HONOURS.

Grammar and Philology.

(Intra-Mural Students will take Parts A and B; Extra-Mural Students Parts B and C).

A.

1. Show the reasons that have induced Philologists to conclude that French and the other Romance Languages are the development of Vulgar and not Classical Latin.

2. In what way did the German conquest of France affect the language of the country?

or

Show from the German element in the language the way in which Philology supplements History, adding any other illustrations that you can.

3. Account for the confusion of Syntax and the multiplicity of forms in the 15th and 16th centuries.

4. To what extent can Philology be called a science?

or

What is the value of the study of Philology?

5. Show, in the case of phonetic change, the lines along which such change will probably develope.

6. Give the essential difference between a vowel and a consonant, and give the physiological explanation of the habitual mis-pronounciation of the French nasal vowels.

7. Why is phonetic change always going on?

B.

1. Under what circumstances do the French use a subjunctive in a clause introduced by a relative pronoun? Give examples.

2. Give four or five examples illustrating the use by the French of prepositions which do not correspond to the English ones.

3. Translate into English:-Poisson d'avril. Qui se ressemble s'assemble. Comme qui dirait: Il a la voix de bonne compagnie. Un peu plus, j'avais la tête. Un ci-devant. Elle n'aime pas le luxe où donnent ses pareilles. Il n'y a pas de quoi. Il ne faut les placer qu'au denier douze.

4. Give the modern French for the following 17th century expressions :

(a) Vous voyez comme je m'y prends.

(b) Hors d'ici tout à l'heure.

(c) Une peau d'un lézard, curiosité agréable.

(d) Puisqu'il est ainsi.

(e) Puisque les seules actions font connaître ce que

nous sommes.

5. Give the rule for the position of adverbs.

C.

1. How is the English form in-ing to be translated into French?

2. "The French language is above all things precise and clear, even at the risk of superfluity." Explain this.

3. What is the origin of the termination-ai in the French Future?

franc, the half dozen, to the right, the day after tomorrow, by day, here and there, cheaper, aside, look out, far from it, it is cold this morning, that cake is hot.

5. Explain the difference between :-envers and vers, avant and devant, après and d'après.

6. Give a very brief account of the origin of the French language.