Excerpt from A Historical French Grammar, Vol. 2: Morphology, or the Study of the Grammatical FormsThe Modern language, ' written with a capital, must be taken as a technical expression for French from the 17th century down to our time. Occasionally the French of the 17th century is contrasted, however, in the original with the modern, i. E. Contemporary language, and in this case 'modern' has been written without a capital. In spite of apparent complexity in this convention, confusion is hardly to be feared in any instance. The use of capitals in the terms Popular and Learned formation, ' resorted to, for greater clearness, in the last two Books, should have been adopted throughout.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.