A French grammarBoosey, 1824 |
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1st person ACTIVE VERB Adjective Adverb allé aller aperçu Article as-He as-I as-Il as-Je as-Le as-Un avoir ayant bien c'est Compound Tenses Cond Cond.Pres CONDITIONAL MOOD Conjugate Conjunction DEFECTIVE VERB deux different Tenses English entendu été être expressed in French fait faut feminine femme fini finished fois Gender and Number gone homme il ou elle Imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD Infinitive Mood interrogative j'ai jamais l'autre lady manner masculine mute NEUTER never Noun parlé parler Past Participle perceived placed PLUPERFECT pouvoir preceded Preposition Pres PRESENT PARTICIPLE Pret PRETERITE promené Pronominal Pronominal Verbs Pronouns qu'il ou qu'elle que vous reçu rejoiced réjoui rendre rendu requires s'en sense sentence sera serais shalt or wilt Simple Tense speak spoken Subjunctive Mood surrendered thing Third Person Singular Thou had'st tout venait vendu venu Verbs ending vingt vowel walked words would'st or should'st
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Page xl - A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word ; as, the man is happy, he is benevolent, he is useful.
Page xl - A Conjunction is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences ; so as out of two or more sentences, to make but one : it sometimes connects only words : as " Thou and he are happy, because you are good.
Page 213 - AN Adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, an adjective, and sometimes to another adverb, to express some quality or circumstance respecting it:, as, " He reads well;" "A truly good man;"
Page 225 - Faisons-en huit, en invoquant Brodeau, Et puis mettons par quelque stratagème : Ma foi, c'est fait ! Si je pouvais encor de mon cerveau Tirer cinq vers, l'ouvrage serait beau. Mais cependant je suis dedans l'onzième, Et ci je crois que je fais le douzième, En voilà treize ajustés au niveau : Ma foi, c'est fait...
Page xl - THE second part of grammar is ETYMOLOGY : •which treats of the different sorts of words, their various modifications, and their derivation. There are, in English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH : namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.
Page 48 - Fem. le mien la mienne les miens les miennes mine le tien la tienne les tiens les tiennes thine le sien la sienne les siens les siennes his, hers...
Page 31 - Un. 2. Deux. 3. Trois. 4. Quatre. 5. Cinq. 6. Six. 7. Sept. 8. Huit. 9. Neuf. 10. Dix. 11. Onze. 12. Douze. 13. Treize. 14. Quatorze. 15. Quinze. 16. Seize. 17. Dix-sept. 18. Dix-huit. 19. Dix-neuf. 20. Vingt. 21. Vingt et un. 22. Vingt-deux.
Page xxxv - Coquin !" ce me dit-il d'une arrogance extrême ; " Va chercher tes coquins ailleurs; coquin toi-même : Ici tous sont égaux ; je ne te dois plus rien ; Je suis sur mon fumier, comme toi sur le tien.
Page 72 - Second Future intimates that the action will be fully accomplished, at or before the time of another future action or event : as, " I shall have dined at one o'clock ;" " The two houses will have finished their business, when the king comes to prorogue them.
Page 216 - PREPOSITIONS serve to connect words with one another, and to show the relation between them. They are, for the most part, put before nouns and pronouns: as, " He went from London to York;" "She is above disguise;