A French grammar

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Page 2 - ... /aim = to be hungry; avoir soif = to be thirsty; avoir honte = to be ashamed...
Page 18 - ... il y va de la vie? It is a matter of life and death?
Page 16 - Je n'oublierai jamais que c'est à vous que je dois la vie ! « — II ne vaut pas la peine d'en parler, répondit Mohun avec indifférence.
Page 70 - Que at the beginning of a sentence, and before the third persons of the subjunctive present, points out that the words 'let him, let them, I wish, they should, ' etf. are understood before it : Qu'iZ nous disc ce qn'il luifaut. Let him tell us what he wants. Qu' 'ils f 'assent comme ils voudront.
Page 31 - ... the verb may be put either in the singular or plural according to the number of thr word understood after the collective.
Page 25 - When quelque is immediately followed by an adjective, participle, or adverb, it is an adverb, and therefore invariable : Quel :ue patients qu'ils soient. However patient they may be. •Queljue bien qu'il se conduise. However well he may behave. 107. 'Whatever...

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