The Revised Ollendorff Method: An Easy System for Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language, with a Succinct Statement of the Elements of Spanish Grammar; Together with Tables of All the Declensions and Conjugations, and a Complete List of Irregular VerbsD. Appleton and Company, 1918 - 459 pages |
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66 acertar 66 acostar 66 carecer 66 pedir able accusative adjectives adverbs already amado-a amigo answer article become better book books bought bread brother caballo change children cloth coffee cold comprado dinero doubt drink ending English EXERCISE father feminine fire first follow following friend friends gender give going gone good great hablar Has your have not hermano horse house hubiera INDICATIVE infinitive intend know last lavado learn lend LESSON-Lección little live long loved make money morning neither never noun nouns o'clock one's participle place PLURAL Pres pronouns quiere read receive second seen shoes SINGULAR soap sometimes soon Spanish speak Subj subjunctive syllable take tell tengo termination thing third thou time to-day used usually vendido verb verbs want willing wine wish to go woman write written you have your brother yours
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Page 227 - I do trust him. He trusts me. We must not trust everybody. Everybody, (every one). Everybody, (all the world). To laugh at something. I laugh at that. We will laugh at it.
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Page 325 - Ouly three out of the twelve lived to years of maturity ; one daughter, Sempronia, whom she married to the second Scipio Africanus : and two sons, Tiberius and Caius, whom she brought up with so much care, that, though they were generally acknowledged to have been born with the most happy dispositions, it was judged that they were still more indebted to education than to nature.
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Page 325 - Only three out of the twelve lived to years of maturity, (edad madura ;) one daughter, Sempronia, whom she married to the second Scipio Africanus ; and two sons, Tiberius and Caius, whom she brought up...
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