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Seras, verras, comprendras. In thèse three instances

the future tense is used in French when in Engli&h

we should employ the présent.

10 Adresse-les-moi. Observe the order of the pronouns

after the imperative affirmative ; in ail other cases

the pronouns précède the verb, and their order is

différent, the dative me preceding the accusative

les, as : il me les donna.

12 Me serait-il possible. Observe the construction after

peut' être, the nominative "gtonoxm. following the verb.

Compare note on aussi, page, 44, line 29.

20 Sache. One of the four verbs in which the 2nd sing. o|

the imperative mood is not the same as the first sing.

of the présent indicative :

They are, être, which makes sois, avoir, „ aie,

savoir, „ sache,

aller, „ va.

They may be remembered by two rhymes in English and French :

{1\ être and avoir, aller and savoir, (2) être, to be, and aller, to go, avoir, to hâve, and savoir to know.

27 Tu seras. See note on line 8 of this page.

28 Au. For penser, followed by à, see note on page 10,

Une 5.

rage Lioet

58, 29 Fait» For rule of past partioiple préoeding its object» see note on page 37* Une 7.

29 Enlevé à, taken away from.

89, 1 Esprit, See note on page 8, line 28.

4 Moi, Note the use of the disjunctiye pronoon moi when

not immediately preceding the verb it goyems. t Était-il descendu. For rule when to conjugate descendre

with être^ and when with avoir ^ see note on page 37,

line21.

9 Guère, scarcely. From Old German weigaro, of a

surety.

11 Accentue, intensifies.

16 Se sont engouffrées. For être as auxîliary to reflectîve

verbs, see note on page 19, line 31.

25 £5^ né. Naître and mourir take the anxiliary être.

28 Un héros. Héros has an aspirated h ; the words derived

from it : héroïne, héroïque, and héroïsme, hâve an unaspirated h.

90, 4 II est à croire, there is reason to believe — ^I suppose.

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