Progressive and Practical Method for the Study of the French Language, Partie 2Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1874 |
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Progressive and Practical Method for the Study of the French Language, Partie 2 F. Duffet Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
Progressive and Practical Method for the Study of the French Language: Part ... F. Duffet Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
able adjective adverb agrees Avez-vous back become believe better books brother children cold country cousin Damaged goods daughter English êtes-vous evening EXAMPLES father first followed following Frederick the Great French friend général Sherman give given going good great grow half an hour happy Have you heard her lesson hour house J'ai kind know know nothing language last late learn leave Leçon left LESSON letter little lost made make means money monsieur months mother much obliged my architect n'est-ce necessary never noun number obliged one's over the wall paid participle people physician placed play pronoun read replied room rules same seen sister sometimes soon speak spend study subj subjunctive succeeded take taken thing think thousand three time to-morrow told town true used verb want watch weather week wish words work write years yesterday young
Fréquemment cités
Page 74 - When the nominatives are of different persons, the verb is commonly plural, and takes the first person rather than the second and the second rather than the third ; as, Si tu et Tullia valitis, ego et Cicero valemus, " If you and Tullia are well, Cicero and I are well.
Page 96 - There would be as many," said he, "if I was being taken to the scaffold8." 1 vérité ; 2 foule ; 3 accourait ; ' parts ; '' échafaud. THE ADVERB. Place of the Adverb. 1. In French, the adverb is generally placed after the verb in simple tenses, and between the auxiliary and the participle in compound tenses; as: You never sing.
Page 69 - France is bounded on the south by the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean Sea; on the east, by...
Page 68 - Europe is bounded on the north by the Frozen Ocean ; on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, which separates it from Africa ; on the east by the continent of Asia ; on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Page 125 - ... luck, thought if he gave a good horse to the king, his fortune would be made. He therefore procured* a very handsome one', went to the palace, and begged the king to do him the honour of accepting it. Louis thanked him for his polite attention, and ordered one of his pages to fetch the beet-root. When it was brought, he presented it to the squire, saying, " Sir, as you seem to be an admirer of the works of nature, I beg you to accept one of its extraordinary productions. I paid a thousand crowns...
Page 58 - Twenty-one years," answered the soldier. The king, struck with his youth, which plainly indicated that he had not borne a musket so long as that, said to him, much astonished,
Page 114 - I have just arrived from — : if you are at leisure to give me a call, I have news to impart that will afford you pleasure. I shall be at home the whole day, so that you may choose your time. Answer. I am gratified to hear that you are at last returned from . Had I no other motive than that of congratulating you on your happy arrivai after so long an absence, that alone would induce me to call on you.
Page 69 - France's sense of national unity has also been encouraged by the existence of natural boundaries that cut it off from other lands. Of its six sides, three are bounded by water (the English Channel on the north, the Atlantic Ocean on the west, and the Mediterranean Sea on the south), and two by mountains (the Pyrenees in the south, and the Alps and the Jura Mountains in the east). Only on the northeastern frontier is there an absence of natural barriers.
Page 74 - If the subjects united by ou are of different persons, the verb is put in the plural, and agrees • with the principal person; as- . You or he will go to the coun- Vous ou lui vous IREZ à la, try, campagne.
Page 105 - I having wandered from his camp too near the French lines, was seized and brought before the French commander. On being asked who he was by the general, he answered, " A drummer in the English service.