An elementary French grammar

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Clark & Maynard, 1881 - French language - 340 pages
 

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Page 327 - Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide. Chien, m. Jeter sa langue aux chiens. Donner sa part aux chiens. Fréquenter le chien et le chat. Il ne faut point se moquer des chiens qu'on ne soit hors du village. Bon chien de chasse, chasse de race. Chien qui aboie ne mord pas. Entre chien et loup. Cœur, m.
Page 269 - Que je sois. Que tu sois. Qu'il soit. Que nous soyons. Que vous soyez. Qu'ils soient.
Page 228 - Now sbideth faith, hope, charity ; these three. — 1 Cor. xiii. 13. OBS. 3. — When the nominatives are of different persons, the verb agrees with the first person in preference to the second, and with the second in preference to the third...
Page 267 - Que j'aie, That I may have. Que tu aies, That thou mayest have. Qu'il ait, That he may have. Que nous ayons, That we may have. Que vous ayez, That you may have. Qu'ils aient, That they may have.
Page 45 - NUMBERS. 1st, premier. 2d, second or deuxième. 3d, troisième. 4th, quatrième. 5th, cinquième. 6th, sixième. 7th, septième. 8th, huitième. 9th, neuvième. 10th, dixième. llth, onzième. 12th, douzième. 13th, treizième. 14th, quatorzième. 15th, quinzième. 16th, seizième. 17th, dix-septième. 18th, dix-huitième. 19th, dix-neuvième. 20th, vingtième.
Page 16 - A noun or pronoun is of the first person, if it represents the speaker ; of the 'econd, if it represents the person spoken to, and of the third, if it represents the person or thing spoken of. 1st person, I, me, we, us ; 2d " You ; 3d " He, him, she, her, it, they, them.
Page 279 - The past participle agrees, in gender and number, with the subject of the verb.
Page 116 - J'eus reçu Tu eus reçu II eut reçu Nous eûmes reçu Vous eûtes reçu Ils eurent reçu...
Page 89 - The past participle agrees with the noun to which it refers, in gender and number, the same as an adjective, in accordance with the following three rules : 1.
Page 265 - Tenses are primitive or derivative. The primitive or principal parts of a verb are : 1. the Infinitive; -2. the Present Participle ; 3. the Past Participle ; 4. the first person singular of the Indicative Present ; and 5. the first person singular of the Past Definite. From these parts the others are derived. Indicative Present.— From the first person singular, the second and third singular.

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