Aux trois quarts, ' three fourths

1. 26. Chose étrange. The article is omitted hère for vividness.

1. 26. La plupart des. Though a word of quantity, plupart before a partitive noun is foUoTved by the part. art. in f ull. See p. 16, 11. 3, 9. Note also that plupart takes the verb in the plural.

Page 17, line 2. Valeurs en j^apier, ' papers of value.' Observe that en does not take the art before the noun which it governs. Its use is indefinite. Dans is definite and is folkîwed by a determining adjective.