à notre gnise : note

CH guise de réco?npense, ' by way of reward. '

il fait toujours à sa guise, ' he always does as he likes.'

,, 8. un bonnet : see note, p. 20 1. 10.

,, II. solennelles: pronounce ' solanelles. '

,, 18. nous prenons . . notre parti de, ' we resign ourselves to.'

56. 10. pour nous entr'aider : the e of entre is elided only in com-

pound words.

un petit nombre d'étudiantes avaient . . : if the subject

of the verb is a collective noun followed by another noun in

the genitive, the verb agrées, as a rule, with the collective

noun when it is gênerai, i.e. when it expresses a distinct

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whole, in which case it is usually preceded by the definite article ; and with its complément, when the collective noun is partitive, in which case it is generally preceded by the indefinite article. Cf. —

la foule de ses amis l'abandonria.

une foule d' amis V abandonnèrent.

56. 12. la majorité était bien loin : if the collective noun is not

followed by a noun in the genitive, the verb agrées with it in most cases and is put in the singular.

,, 17. qui nous convienne : account for niood and tense.

à grand'peine : see note, p. 16 1. 20.

,, 21. à l'aflfût de, ' on the look-out for. '

,, 26. le préjugé : what is the meaning of/r^WîV^?

, , 30. nous rend tout difiQcile : note that ' to make ' + an adjecti\e =^ rendre, noi faire.