IL— LE PETIT CHAPERON ROUGE— LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

8. 1. il était, impersonal, like 'il y avait ;' fille de village, see Preliminary (i) I. 1.

2. eût pu, pluperfect subjunctive of pouvoir, whicli in compound tenses is construed quite differently from the Euglish can : — J'ai pu voir, I hâve been able to see ; J'aurais pu voir, / could hâve seen.

The subjunctive is required in French on account of the preceding superlative.

être folle (fem. of fou) de, to be veryfoiid of.

en, hère for d'elle.

mère-grand, in old familiar language for grand'mère.

3-4. fit faire, preterite indicative of faire faire, the meaning of which is — to cause (or order) to be done or made. Lui is indirect object [what in Lat. Gram. is called the dative of advantage] for her.