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This tower is fifteen meters higher than that one

29. Hâve you a f ather-in-law ? — Yes, I hâve a very rich one. 30. A Street ten meters wide (four ways).

31. Our yard is a hundred and twenty feet long (four ways). 32. What is that? — That is a photograph album. 33. She was obliged to wait for the servant to bring the lamps. 34. Let's not oblige them to wait until we are

Exercises

ready. It is possible that it will be four p.m. before we are ready to start. 35. The lady whose servant had brought the lamps had just left for the country. 36. Do you remember the name of the lady in whose album you saw that photograph? 37. There is no servant who is taller than theirs. Theirs is the tallest in the city. 38. This is the table on which I told him to put the album. 39. Don't you hear a carriage approaching? 40. Do you not fear he will break off the marriage? He seems to want to raise the dowry until you will hâve only one or two thousand francs a year left.

E, Sujet de composition : On discute toujours la dot.

EXERCISE XVn

(Act II, Scènes 13 and 14) A, The Use of Names of Cities and Countries ^

1 . En + name — with féminine singular names of countries, states, provinces.

n va (voyage) en France (en Californie,

en Touraine).

2. Dans + défini te article + name — with (a) Countries having a distinctive

adjunct.

n va (voyage) dans /'Amérique du Sud (dans les Indes Occidentales).

(6) Masculine names of states and

provinces.

n va (demeure) dans le Massachusetts (dans le Lyonnais).

(c) AU names of departments.

n est né dans la Meuse (dans /e Calvados).

> There are numerous cases which this note, long as it is, does not eover. Tbe authoT hopes that it is true, however, as far as it goes.

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