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... give for a genuine and real language , a language more or less doubtful ? ' There can be no doubt that such a danger exists . I have more than once heard foreigners who have been badly taught make singu- lar mistakes between good and ...
... give for a genuine and real language , a language more or less doubtful ? ' There can be no doubt that such a danger exists . I have more than once heard foreigners who have been badly taught make singu- lar mistakes between good and ...
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... give to your teaching a character really historical . Till lately , it has been usual to explain grammatical difficulties by mere reasoning , now we trust to history ; in other words , we substitute for hypotheses more or less subtile ...
... give to your teaching a character really historical . Till lately , it has been usual to explain grammatical difficulties by mere reasoning , now we trust to history ; in other words , we substitute for hypotheses more or less subtile ...
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... allowing anything for the time required in explanation , for unavoidable loss of time , etc. , this would give two hours only to each pupil in the course of a year . All this I believe to be most injurious . It PREFACE . xiii.
... allowing anything for the time required in explanation , for unavoidable loss of time , etc. , this would give two hours only to each pupil in the course of a year . All this I believe to be most injurious . It PREFACE . xiii.
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... literary genius powerful enough to give unity to its new § 19. Modern French , A.D. 1600 to present day idiom . 10 S $ 17 , 18 . INTRODUCTION . Learned elements in French Struggle of writers against foreign influence.
... literary genius powerful enough to give unity to its new § 19. Modern French , A.D. 1600 to present day idiom . 10 S $ 17 , 18 . INTRODUCTION . Learned elements in French Struggle of writers against foreign influence.
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... gives few details . In his Dictionary he ignores them entirely . It would seem as if he were gradually be- coming of opinion that all the peculiarities of spelling , etc. , in our modern language have arisen , not from dialectal ...
... gives few details . In his Dictionary he ignores them entirely . It would seem as if he were gradually be- coming of opinion that all the peculiarities of spelling , etc. , in our modern language have arisen , not from dialectal ...
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Common terms and phrases
13th cent adjective Adverbs arrivé atonic syllable aura aurait aurez avait avez avoir ayez ayons bien BOILEAU BOSSUET C'est cæsura century common Compare compound Conditional conjugation consonant CORNEILLE declensions derived deux dialect Dieu diphthong Direct Object employed enfant English été être fait faut feminine fini finished FONTAINE forms gender grand hiatus homme Imperative Indicative Infinitive Intransitive Intransitive Verbs irregular j'ai j'aie j'aurai jamais L'homme language Langue Latin masculines lavé LITTRÉ livre Low Latin Masculine Nouns ending mère Modern French MOLIÈRE Mood mouillé mute nouns Old French oneself paru Past Imperfect Past Participle Past Simple peint père Perfect plural porté preposition Present Participle Present stem Pronouns pronunciation qu'il qu'on RACINE rhymes rule senti seul Simple Past singular sound Strong Verb SUBJECTIVE Subjunctive Mood substantival substantive tenses tonic accent tonic syllable tout tué usually vendu voir VOLTAIRE vowel weak verb words
Popular passages
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Page 212 - Je vais, tu vas, il va ; nous allons, vous allez, ils vont.
Page 364 - Celui qui met un frein à la fureur des flots Sait aussi des méchants arrêter les complots. Soumis avec respect à sa volonté sainte, Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte Cependant je rends grâce au zèle officieux Qui sur tous mes périls vous fait ouvrir les yeux.
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Page 119 - German tribe, or association of tribes, which at the breaking up of the Roman empire possessed themselves of Gaul, to which they gave their own name.. They were the ruling conquering people, honourably distinguished from the Gauls and degenerate Romans, among whom they established themselves, by their independence, their love of freedom, their scorn of a lie ; they had, in short, the virtues which belong to a conquering and dominant race in the midst of an inferior and conquered one. And thus it...
Page 160 - De cette nuit, Phénice, as-tu vu la splendeur? Tes yeux ne sont-ils pas tout pleins de sa grandeur? Ces flambeaux, ce bûcher", cette nuit enflammée, Ces aigles, ces faisceaux, ce peuple...
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