We use in English the verb to have both as an auxiliary and active verb, or, in other words, we employ it to assist in conjugating another verb, and we make use of it alone as a principal; as, for example,

1. To have, as an auxiliary.

I have received your letter.
She has spoken to me.

They had foretold the event.

You observe that in these instances the verb to have serves to conjugate receive, speak, and foretel. Now, consider the following examples of

2. To have, as a principal or active verb.

We have some cherries.

You had a good opportunity.

I shall have it to-morrow.

Now the Spaniards make use of two verbs instead of one in the cases above cited, haber being the auxiliary or helping verb, by which other verbs are conjugated; and tener, to hold, being the principal or active verb to be employed to express possession; haber then would be used in the first instance, and tener in the second.

I have been minute in describing the difference existing between these two words, because the distinction is one of great importance, and it is not difficult when once you have perfectly comprehended it.

Before making any farther observation, I will give you the conjugation of the verb tener, which you should afterwards,

together with haber, commit to memory, before attempting to write the following exercise.

The conjunction y "and" must be always used before the last cardinal number. Examples:

When numeral adjectives are used with nouns of dimension, they should be followed by the proposition de.

Two yards in length.
Thirty feet high.

EXAMPLES.

Dos varas de largo.
Treinta pies de alto.

EXERCISE SEVENTH.-ON NUMERAL ADJECTIVES.

Five oxen and twenty-seven sheep. One thousand eight

oveja.

buey hundred and fifty-two. Forty-five houses in the village. A

casa

village.

city with two hundred and thirty-six thousand souls. Five

ciudad

*

alma.

hundred and twenty-nine prisoners in the little colony. Three

*

prisionero

colonia.

hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes,

*

dia

hora

minuto

and forty-nine seconds in the year. Seven days in the week:

segundo

año.

semana

Monday, the first day; Tuesday, the second; Wednesday, the

Lunes

Martes

Miercoles

third; Thursday, the fourth; Friday, the fifth; Saturday, the

Jueves

Viernes

Sabado

sixth; and Sunday, the seventh. Eighty-four chapters in the

Domingo

capitulo

first volume, and nearly a thousand pages. George the Fourth,

tomo

casi *

pagina. Jorge

*

successor to George the Third. Five families and thirty-seven

sucesor

familia

children. A score of people in the theatre. A plank six

inches thick. Nine hundred and seventy-one volumes in the pulgada grueso. library. Six women and two men, with nine children. A

libreria.

muger

con

well eighty fathoms deep. The tenth of February. The

pozo de

braza profundo.

card. num.

Febrero.