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me. Kemember that me is dative. See note, p

18. monsieur appelle madame. An English servant would say, ‘ My master is calling you, ma’am.’

19. il ne sait où donner de la tête, ‘he doesn’t know which way to turn.’ Pas can be omitted with savoir (it must be omitted in the conditional je ne saurais in the sense of ‘I cannot ’), pouvoir, oser, cesser. It is also omitted in certain phrases : e.g.je n'ai que faire de, ‘ I hâve no need of ; ’ (^7) n'importe, ‘ it does not matter ; * à Dieu ne plaise, ‘ God forbid ; * qu'à cela ne tienne, ‘ certainly, if that’s ail,* etc.

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