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15. The use of the transitive verb, of the preposition, and of the conjunc- 

 tion. 



16. What is the accusative construction? The nominative? The rela- 

 tion of each to the verb. 



17. Construction after the accusative. Construction of the verbs with 

 the pronouns. 



18. The grammatical sentence and its various classes. Of what parts 

 is each made? 



19. Syntax. Figures of speech. How many are there and of what does 

 each consist. 



20. Prosody. Prosodial accent. Syllabication, diphthongs, triphthongs, 

 words accented on the last syllable, on the antepenult, or on the penult. 



21. Rules of accents. 



22. Orthography and its parts. Principles that will be used as standards 

 of good orthography with respect to the use of the letters. Spanish alphabet 

 and classification of the letters forming it. 



23. Use of the letters b and v. Also of g, j, y, x, and h. 



24. Use of i, y, and of m. Duplications of the letters. Use of the 

 capital letters. Punctuation and its signs. Cases in which the use of the 

 comma is common. 



25. Use of the period and of the other signs used in orthography. Also 

 of the Roman numbers. 



ARITHMETIC 



1. Arithmetic, number, amount, and unit. 



2. Entire numbers, fractions, mixed, abstract and concrete, homogeneous 

 and heterogeneous numbers. 



3. Numeration and its division into oral and written. Base of a system 

 of numeration, and when is it called decimal? Units of first order, of second 

 order, etc. 



4. Different orders of units in the decimal numeration. 



5. Absolute and relative value of the cyphers. Modes of writing and 

 reading entire numbers. 



6. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Different names 

 of the signs. The use of these in arithmetical operations. 



7. Numbers that can be divided. Even and odd numbers. Prime num- 

 bers, numbers divisible by 2, 3, 5. 



8. Decimal metric system. How is it distinguished from other systems. 

 Models used to express the multiples and divisions of the unit and way 

 of verifying them. 



9. Unit of length, its multiples and divisors. Units of surface, their mul- 

 tiples and divisors and what relation each bears to the immediate higher 

 denomination. 



10. Usual unit of volume and relation it bears to its divisors. Usual 

 unit of capacity, its multiples and divisors. Units of weight, their multiples 

 and divisors. 



11. Fractions. Numerator, denominator, proper fractions, improper frac- 

 tions, way of writing them and reading them. How to reduce a mixed 

 number to a fraction. 



12. Simplification of the fractions, reduction of the same to a common 

 denominator and way of valuing them. 



13. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions. 



14. Decimal fractions. Nomenclature of the decimal units, place they 



