THIRD SUNDAY

49. Qu'est-ce qu'il est, papa, dans uu régiment ? — What is papa in a régiment ? Literally : What is it that he is, papa, in a régiment ?

The French, it will thus be seen, sometimes use a noun in apposition with a pronoun winch stands as the subject of the sentence. In English, the pronoun is an expletive, and the noun becomes the subject.

50. Je veux être soldat. — I mean to be a soldier. See note 40.