VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE FLATTER.

There are about 6,000 Verbs in the French language. Nearly 5,000 are conjugated like FLATTER. The following list contains those most in use.

When you want to find out any person of any of those verbs, put its radical in the place of the radical of flatter. Thus, if you want the third person plural of the imperfect of the subjunctive of danser, you must write dans, instead of flatt, and you have qu'ils dansassent.

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE FLATTER.

The following verbs are conjugated like flatter, but as they begin with a vowel or an h mute, je must be written j' before them when it is the subject of one of them, as-j'aime, j'ornerai, que j'utilisasse, j'habiterais.

EXERCISES ON REGULAR VERBS OF THE

FIRST CONJUGATION.

INDICATIVE PRESENT.

1. How pretty thou art!

How beautiful thou appearest to me! 2. I speak first. 3. We are listening. 4. You are praising too much your neighbour. 5. We give you advice. 6. The mouse shows a little the head, then returns to the rat-hole. 7. The cats catch the mice. 8. We suspect that man, and she approves his prudence.

9. The bee browses

on sweet-smelling flowers. 10. You always hum. 11. I sting my enemies. 12. We like the philosophers who teach to be contented with little. 13. I admire a bee-hive. 14. He studies the French language. 15. You do not dare to speak.

16. Why do you not dare to speak? 17. We do not dare to make mistakes.

PAST INDEFINITE.

1. We have found here a green meadow and a clear stream. 2. I have spoken to her. 3. She has declared her advice. 4. My father and mother have added twenty francs to my purse. 5. We have found the house too small. 6. God has created all things. 7. I have praised his prudence. 8. You have dug a mine. 9. You and your sister have obliged that poor family. 10. Has your cat scratched the child? 11. Thou hast caused some damage. 12. Has not impatience caused many evils? 13. The wolf has devoured young sheep. 14. We have worked day and night.

IMPERFECT.

1. The shepherds were playing on the flute. 2. A bee was forming its cell. 3. I was admiring the Escurial.