Practical Lessons in French Grammar

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B.H. Sanborn & Company, 1910 - French language - 354 pages
 

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Page xxvii - An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 18 - Traduisez : le mien le tien le sien le nôtre le vôtre le leur la mienne la tienne la sienne la nôtre la vôtre la leur les miens les tiens...
Page v - ... abundant easy exercises, designed not only to fix in the memory the forms and principles of grammar, but also to cultivate readiness in the reproduction of natural forms of expression...
Page 144 - ... des grands vases d'argent dans des tasses d'or couronnées de fleurs. On apporta dans des corbeilles tous les fruits que le printemps promet et que l'automne répand sur la terre.
Page v - During the first year the work should comprise: (1) careful drill in pronunciation; (2) the rudiments of grammar, including the inflection of the regular and the more common irregular verbs, the plural of nouns, the inflection of adjectives, participles, and pronouns; the use of personal pronouns...
Page 241 - J'eus eu, I had had. Tu eus eu, thou hadst had. Il eut eu, he had had. Nous eûmes eu, we had had. Vous eûtes eu, you had had. Ils eurent eu, they had had.
Page 243 - IMPERFECT. f avais été, I had been. tu avais été, thou hadst been. il avait été, he had been, nous avions été, we had been, vous aviez été, you had been. ils avaient été, they had been.
Page 241 - J'ai eu, I have had. Tu as eu, thou hast had. Il a eu, he has had. Nous avons eu, we have had. Vous avez eu, you have had. Ils ont eu, they have had.
Page vi - ... study, and subsequent study should give considerable facility in using them. The verb seems most formidable; but when it is perceived that most forms of all verbs may be treated as identically derived from the "primitive tenses...

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