† Vouloir, to be willing; voulant, voulu je veux, tu veux, i veut, nous voulons, vous voulez, ils veulent-je voulais, je voulus, je voudrai, je voudrais veuille, veuillez - que je veuille, que tu veuilles, qu'il veuille, que nous voulions, que vous vouliez, qu'ils veuillent, que je voulusse, etc. N. B.-Many defective verbs have been classified among the irregular or semi-irregular verbs. The verbs having no marks should be studied separately-most of them offering certain peculiarities. Let the student notice, in reviewing the irregular verbs of the language, that there are twenty-nine classes of semi-irregular verbs. Five words, for each of these twenty-nine classes of verbs, will enable him to conjugate one hundred and sixty-four verbs commonly called irregular. Let the student, after having ascertained the model verb for a class, classify, for himself, all the verbs that are conjugated like the model verb: Ex.-Battre - and its compounds. OBJECTIVE CASE AFTER VERBS. Some verbs have two objects, a direct and an indirect; as: I gave a watch to my son. I gave it to him. I bought it for him. I paid the watch-maker for it. J'ai donné une montre à mon fils. Je la lui ai donnée. Je l'ai achetée pour lui. Je l'ai payée à l'horloger. The objective case after passive verbs is preceded by de or par. By de, when we express a feeling, a passion, an operation of the soul; by par, when we have to express an action in which the body or the mind alone is concerned. This novel was written by Alex- Ce roman a été écrit par Alexander Dumas. andre Dumas. That boy has been corrected by Ce garçon a été corrigé par son his father. This parcel has been brought by Ce paquet a été apporté par John. père. Jean. The following verbs have for their object another verb in the infinitive: She prefers to stay in rather than Elle aime mieux rester que de Deign to listen to what I tell you. Daignez écouter ce que je vous |