Grammar of household words in four languages, adapted to the separate or simultaneous study of English, German, French, and Italian1863 |
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Page 186 - He gave the fullest and the most sincere proof of the truest friendship. lECTURE V. OF PARTICIPLES. A PARTICIPLE is a word derived from a verb, and partakes of the nature of a verb, and also of an adjective. Verbs have three participles, the present or imperfect, the perfect, and the compound. The present or imperfect participle denotes action or being continued, but not perfected. It always ends in ing; as, ruling, being: "lam writing a. letter.
Page xxvii - Que je prenne, que tu prennes, qu'il prenne, que nous prenions, que vous preniez, qu'ils prennent.
Page 174 - The following adjectives are compared irregularly: good, better, best; bad or ill, worse, worst; little, less, least • much, more, most; many, more, most ; far, farther, farthest ; late, later or latter ', latest or last.
Page 69 - Le mien. La mienne. Les miens. Les miennes. Le tien. La tienne. Les tiens. Les tiennes. Le sien. La sienne. Les siens. Les siennes.
Page 195 - To conjugate the verb interrogatively, the personal pronoun, accompanied by a hyphen (-) is placed after the verb in the simple tenses, and between the auxiliary and the participle in the compound tenses...
Page xxviii - Prés, je fais, tu fais, il fait ; nous faisons, vous faites, ils font. Imparf. je faisais, tu faisais, il faisait, etc. Prés, du Subj. que je fasse, que tu fasses, qu'il fasse ; que nous fassions, que vous fassiez, qu'ils fassent. Passé déf.
Page iii - His father was a justice of the peace, and one day, when the boy went home, the old gentleman was holding a justice's court. There he sat in state, among a crowd of people, on an old-fashioned horse-hair settee. A new light now broke in upon our young hero's mind. My father, said he, mentally, is a horse-hair justice, and therefore a noun ! Such are the grotesque vagaries of the youthful intellect, left to itself.
Page xxvii - Que je veuille, que tu veuilles, qu'il veuille, que nous voulions, que vous vouliez, qu'ils veuillent.
Page 3 - There are two kinds of nouns, proper and common. Proper nouns are the names of persons and places ; as, Victoria, London, the Thames.
Page xxiv - Que je meure, que tu meures, qu'il meure, que nous mourions, que vous mouriez, qu'ils meurent.