C'était bien dit à lui, j'approuve sa prudence. Et savait que la méfiance Est mère de la sûreté. par by là there badly des colonnes de marbre; marble columns; là there des portes doors d'or, of gold, des bas reliefs bas reliefs de diamant. of diamond. Il entra dans He en tered (in) plusieurs several chambres rooms dont of which parmi among les hommes; men; enfin finally l'histoire the history de don Quichotte, of don Quixote, où where Sancho, Sancho, monté mounted sur on son grison, his donkey, allait was on his way gouverner to govern l'île the island que which l'on one had shut up des lions some lions et des léopards. and some leopards. Philippe II. Philip the les tapisseries the hang- Pendant que Whilst Second. En On arrivant arriving il était he was ings étaient were admirables: admirable: on one voyait saw there des chasses, (pictures. of) huntings, des combats, battles, des fables, fables, où where (in which) les dieux the gods se jouaient were sporting E le renard the fox regardait was looking at ces those merveilles, marvels, du palais of the palace DETERMINATIVE ADJECTIVES. 155. A determinative adjective is a word added to a substantive to express its accidental position or relation. There are four kinds of determinative adjectives: demonstrative, possessive, indefinite, numeral. Ce is made use of before a consonant or an h aspi rate, cet before a vowel or h mute. 157.-Demonstrative adjectives are placed before the noun They agree with it in gender and number and must be repeated like the article. (§ 130.) 158. Ci added to a noun that has a demonstrative adjective before it, means that ce, cet, cette must be translated by this; ces by these. Là means that they must be translated by that, those respectively, as : 160.-The possessive adjective is placed just before the substantive representing the thing possessed. It agrees with it in gender and number, and must be repeated like the article, (see § 130), as: thy uncle, father, and sisters, ton oncle, ton père et tes sœurs. 161.-Make use of mon, ton, son, instead of ma, ta, sa, before a feminine noun beginning with a vowel or silent h, as; maintes certain certaine mainte maints many maint quelconque quelconque quelconques quelconques whatever (no singular) plusieurs plusieurs several, many 163.-Indefinite adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun to which they relate. They generally go before it, with the exception of quelconque, which is always put after. |