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Future Tense of the Verb AVOIR, to have.

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J'aurai une redingote neuve la semaine prochaine. - Nous aurons des bottes vernies. Il a un nouvel habit.-La partie inférieure du paletot est usée.-La doublure du gilet est belle.— Il aura une magnifique statue de Diane chasseresse.-Nous aurons des gants troués et un vieil habit déchiré.-Le garçon aura une veste bleue.-La maison est contiguë au jardin du pasteur.Joséphine est rieuse.-La sœur d'Amélie est institutrice.-La fille du fermier est majeure, mais les autres enfants sont mineurs.Il aura des bretelles neuves et une nouvelle ceinture.-Le vieil ami du maître a des talents supérieurs. Le repentir de la femme pécheresse. Il aura un fol amour des richesses et des honneurs.

Progressive Exercise 7.

She is proud, imperious and deceitful.-You will have a fier impérieux

trompeur

foolish hope.-John shall have some new clothes, black gloves, neuf 2 1 Rule 12, noir 2

espoir m. Jean

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and William's old necktie.—The last week of the month Guillaume Rule 9

of June.-The first and the best

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dernier semaine f.

mois m.

girl in the class.-The

meilleur Rule 22, 1stly de

classe f.

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A new dress - coat and a new

is in the department of the

dans

département

Lower Seine.

Seine f. inférieur Rule 22, 1stly

* The line under an English word, indicates that the word, or part of the word, is the same in French.

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turque.

traitresse.

publique. grecque. Longue. bénigne. jumelle. tierce. favorite. coite.

maligne.

Medicle Plural of Adjectives.

the surgative afectives is generally

With W MY NEIN MENT SIT Plural of nouns.

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Fem. sing. grande, naturelle, liberale,

trompeuse,

Fem. plural. grandes.

naturelles. libérales. trompeuses.

Ne deme drives ending in al, take an s for the KANNA HANTUad of changing để into aur; such are:

Masculine singular., Masculine plural.

amical

colossal,

fatal.

glacial.

matinal, martial,

KXAMPLES

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amicals.

colossals. fatals. glacials. matinals. martials, etc.

friendly intercourse,
des rapports amicals.

Rule 27. Two adjectives, den, blue, and feu, late, take an s

EXAMPLES

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the late kings, les feus rois.

Na pow in power in the sense of lately deceased.)

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Progressive Reading and Translation 8.
(The English is at page 201.)

Ma chère amie, j'aurai un corsage noir et des manches blanches. La robe de soie bleue de Madame C. sera prête la semaine prochaine.-Une belle robe de satin moiré. Les rubans de soie du bonnet de ma grand'mère.-Une robe légère et un petit chapeau.-L'eau fraîche du ruisseau, l'air pur de la canpagne, les douces chansons des petits oiseaux.-Aurora est une petite maligne. La vieille dentelle du chapeau de maman.Il sera l'enfant gâté de la famille.-Les paroles consolatrices de la bonne sœur.-Les vents glacials du nord de l'Europe.-Les sons martials du clairon.-Les jardins publics de Paris.-L'expression favorite de la langue traîtresse.

Progressive Exercise 8.

N.B.-Nouns representing the material out of which a thing is made, are transposed in French, and preceded by de or en. EXAMPLES:-A silver watch, (read) a watch of silver-une montre d'argent, or, une montre en argent. In the first case with de, the noun montre is the prominent object; in the second case with en, the material argent is the prominent object. Mademoiselle Joséphine's silk dress, (read) the dress of silk of Mademoiselle Joséphine.-A public insult.-The total destruction

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of the Greek fleet.-The twin children of the old lawyer.2 flotte f. 1

2

enfant m. 1

vieux Rule 23 avocat

The ambiguous evidence of the witnesses.-The poor child has ambigu 2 déposition f. 1

témoin

pauvre

a tertian fever. Mademoiselle Constance's muslin dress will 2 fièvre f. 1

3

4

2 (de) 1

be dry. A beautiful black velvet bonnet.-The long days of

Rule 24

beau

noir 3

2 (de) 1

Rule 24 jour m. the summer. He will be a benign old man.-The frank

été m.

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Rule 24-The following adjectives form their feminine ir

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Formation of the Plural of Adjectives.

Rule 25.-The plural of qualificative adjectives is generally formed in the same manner as the plural of nouns.

maligne.

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Rule 26.-Some adjectives ending in al, take an s for the

masculine plural, instead of changing al into aux; such are:

trompeurs,

trompeuse, trompeuses.

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Rule 27.-Two adjectives, bleu, blue, and feu, late, take an s

for the plural instead of an x.

the blue eyes of the child,

les yeux bleus de l'enfant.

EXAMPLES.

the late kings,
les feus rois.

(feu only refers to persons in the sense of lately deceased.)

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Progressive Reading and Translation 8.
(The English is at page 201.)

Ma chère amie, j'aurai un corsage noir et des manches blanches. La robe de soie bleue de Madame C. sera prête la semaine prochaine.-Une belle robe de satin moiré. Les rubans de soie du bonnet de ma grand'mère. Une robe légère et un petit chapeau.-L'eau fraîche du ruisseau, l'air pur de la canpagne, les douces chansons des petits oiseaux.-Aurora est une petite maligne.-La vieille dentelle du chapeau de maman.-Il sera l'enfant gâté de la famille.-Les paroles consolatrices de la bonne sœur.-Les vents glacials du nord de l'Europe.-Les sons martials du clairon.-Les jardins publics de Paris.-L'expression favorite de la langue traîtresse.

Progressive Exercise 8.

N.B.-Nouns representing the material out of which a thing is made, are transposed in French, and preceded by de or en. EXAMPLES:-A silver watch, (read) a watch of silver-une montre d'argent, or, une montre en argent. In the first case with de, the noun montre is the prominent object; in the second case with en, the material argent is the prominent object. Mademoiselle Joséphine's silk dress, (read) the dress of silk of Mademoiselle Joséphine.-A public insult.-The total destruction

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of the Greek fleet.-The twin children of the

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The ambiguous evidence of the witnesses.-The poor child has ambigu 2 déposition f. 1

a

témoin

pauvre

tertian fever. Mademoiselle Constance's muslin dress will

2

3

fièvre f. 1

noir 3

4

2 (de) 1

2 (de) 1

be dry. A beautiful black velvet bonnet.-The long days of

Rule 24

beau

Rule 24 jour m. the summer. He will be a benign old man.-The frank

été m.

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