Verbes toujours suivis de A devant un NOM

Remarque. Cette liste ne renferme que les verbes pour lesquels il pourrait s'élever des doutes dans l'esprit d'un étudiant étranger.

aboutir à applaudir à i assister à ^ céder à comparer à * désobéir à échapper à* faire observer à

faire savoir à faire connaître à jouer à " obéir à parler à ^ penser à '' réfléchir à ressembler à

satisfaire â servir à ^ songer à succéder à suppléer à survivre à toucher à »

VERBES RÉFLÉCHIS. Beaucoup de ces verbes, ayant le pronom "se" comme complément direct, exigent "à'' devant leur complément indirect ; la liste suivante, en conséquence, ne renferme guère que des exemples.

s'abonner à s'accoutumer à s'adonner à s'adresser à s'appliquer à s'attendre à se fier à

s'habituer à s'exercer à se mêler à se mettre à s'occuper à i" se préparer à

se rapporter à se résigner à se résoudre â se soumettre à se soustraire à se vouer à

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* " To escape something." Echapper de, dans le sens " to escape from." » S'il s'agit d'un instrument de musique, on dit : jov£r de. " "Parler de" signifie "to speak aoout." T Voir note 4, page 19.

8 " Servir à," to be used for ; " servir de," to be used as, to act as. » To tamper with.

»• Voir note 3, page 19.

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Exercice sur les Prépositions.

Sx. 1. (Constructio'.i élémentaire.)^

1. To be or not to be, that is the question. 2. Well, to hâve or not to bave is just as important. 3. You look depressed to-day. 4. Yes, I am sorry to bave bought this horse ; it is lame. 5. As for me, I am sorry not to be at the theater. Bat I am glad not to bave bought the horse you spoke of. You see, I am very élever. 6. It is not difiScult not to be cheated in a bargain when one bas no money to buy (for to buy) anj-thing. 7. Well, tbere is some good in everythiug. For instance, when one is poor and unhappy, it is easy not to hâve many enemies. 8. Yes, just as easy as it is difficult to hâve many friends and admirers.

• Rappeler à l'élève que : !• Si l'infinitif est employé seul, aa début d'nne phrase, le " to " anglais ne ee traduit pas : 2** Devant l'infinitif, les deux négations sont généralement réunies (ne pu avoir).

Ex. 2. ( Un peu plus difficile. )

1. I bave no time to go to the post-oflBce, and I bave no way to get any stamps in the neighborhood. What shall I do? 2. Are you ashamed to ask me to help you ? 3. I was. Yet, since you hâve the kindness to speak of it, I shall ask you to mail this for me. 4. Kindly put down exactly bow many stamps you want on eacb parccl. I am not patient enough (hâve not enough patience) to bave ail thèse things weighed at the office. 5. I bave no means to weigh thèse parcels, but, if you bave no time to do it at the postofiBce, you can afiSs a five-cent stamp on each of them ; that will surely be enough.

Ex. 3. Prépositions DE et POUR.

1. I am hère to work. I want money to buy food for my family. 2. I am willing (désireiu) to help you, but I tbink you are not very williug to work. 3. It is not fair to speak that way without knowing me. 4. Well, I bave no time to listen to you. Hurry up, speak. 5. It is necessary for me to work for a living (for to live), for it is not allowed to beg. 6. No, but it is not forbidden to give alms. Hère is a franc, to buy food. 7. Do you believe this is enough to feed flve people ? I would be glad to dô anytbing. 8. To work, one must be healthy. It is necessary to bave a trade of some kind. I bave been often deceived by people like you. Day before yesterday, a man said to me, "Give me some bread and cheese, witb a glass of wine. and I shall chop wood for you." I fed bim, but be did nothing. When I asked bim wby be had not cbopped the wood, be replied, " I would be glad to do it for you, but it is better to leacb you a leesoQ. Tbere it Is : Ne ver trust the word (xjkr d) of an utter stranger."

Ex. 4. Verhes sans Prépositions.

Dear sir:

I expect to go to Versailles next Sunday. I wish to go tbere by train, in order to see the country. Come to meet me at the dépôt, Montparnasse station. Sister says that she is not willing to wait (to be wUling : vottloir) for you very long. 8o, be punctual. It is absolutely necessary to start, at the latest, at 10 a.m. If you are late, as you generaliy are, rua and takc a cab, and do not trj' to walk to the dépôt. We tbougbt, a moment, tbat we woold go to Versailles

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alone, but we do not know how to speak French : I mean we do not dare to speak with Parisians, for they seem to be very stupid, and always prétend not to understand us when we speak.

Your friend,

Ex. 5. Verbes sans Prépositions (second exercice).^

1. I think of going to the ccuntry a week from to-morrow. 2. I remember hearing you say that three times already, since yesterday. 3. I do not believe I told you so. As you are always joking, I shall pay no attention to this remark. 4. Do you hope to stay long there ? 5. I hope to ineet my uncle there, and of course I want to stay with him as long as possible. 6. Now I must leave you : I see father coming down the road ; he seems to be in good spirits. Yes, I hear him laugh, do you not ?" 7. As for me, I am going to dine with X. I must go up to his room, to see if he is ready. 8. No, stay hère. He will come down to meet you in the hall.

* Il n'y a pas eenlement, dans cet exercice, des verbes ne prenant pas de prépositions ; c'est à l'élève a voir dans quels cas il ne faut pas de préposition, et &ns quels cas on doit employer " de " ou " pour."

* Rappeler que " do you not" ne peut pas se traduire ici par " n'est-cepas," parceque le verbe principal (to laugh) et " do " n'ont pas le même sujet. Il faut dire: '' et vous ? " Il n'eu serait pas de même si la phrase était: " yoa laugh, do you not?" (vous riez, n'est-ce pas?)

Ex. 6. Préposition A. §1. o et h.

1. This house is to be sold, at once, for the landlord wants money. He bas no time to lose. 2. Go to see him at once. He will take pleasure in showing you the premises. 3. Is the garden to be sold, too ? 4. No, the barn and the orchard are to let only. 5. Well, come along. I know your courage in facing landlords and janitors : you will help me in bargaining with them. 6. I will go. But first, you must help me in translating this German sentence. 7. Willingly. It is easy. There it is : "There is more glory in dying like Nelson than in iiving in unmerited honor." 8. Thanks. It seems to me that it is a very commonplace remark. Tell me : is this letter to be sent to Europe ? 9. Why do you ask ? 10. Because there is not a minute to lose. The mail closes at noon, and it is 11.30 now. 11. It is my brother's fault. He spent so much time reading, that he forgot au about the letter.

Ex. 7. Préposition J.. § 2 {verhes prenant "à" et "de").

1. I am not asharaed to ask that man to help me, for he promised ail his f riends to do something to better their condition and to enable them to succeed in life. 2. It is not always easy to succeed. 3. I take the liberty of observing that it is uot difficùlt to make a Iiving (to earn one's life), when oiie bas decided to work for a Iiving. 4. I certaiuly — I mean : earnestly expect to succeed. I expect to make a great deal of money in a few years. 5. You are like a man I met the other day. I was speaking of farming, and I said to him : " I understand that you lost a great deal of money in your experiments in raising chickens." He answered, "Yes, I did, but I expect to get it ail back again. I am writing a bock on ' How to raise chickens.' " 6. I shall do my best. 7. First, you must give up gambling, and try to be serions. 8. It is easy for you to speak that way, but I think we hâve been brought up too strictîy. Father never allowed his children to go out or to hâve a good time.

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Ex. 8. Même sujet.

1. Tou must tell that gentleman not to come any more. Father forbids him to come. 2. Indeed, I adrised him several times already to stay away. 3. Why do you not ask bis brotber to help yen in that case? 4. His brotber Is just as tactless as he is. A married lady, whom he knows but little, asked him one day, " What is the différence between a dialogue and a monologue?" " Well," he said,i "when two women talk it's a dialogue. When a woman cairiea on a con- Tersation with her husband it is a monologue." 5. To speak of something more serions, 2 tell me why your uncle advised Miss Backwoods to go to that Blank school. 6. How can I know ? 7. If I were he, I wonld suggest to her to go to a collège. 8. Father proposed to her to send a letter to the principal of our old collège, but she told him to mind his own business. 9. Did they reprove this young lady for being rude? 10. Who, they? 11. Her parents. 12. Tes, Uiey adrised her to be more gentle in the future.

* Faire observer qu'en français, on emploie de préférence l'inversion (dit-il).

* Rappeler les règles de " qaelqae chose, quelqu'un, rien," etc., suivis d'un adjectif.

Ex. 9. Même sujet.

1. Why did you reprove this man for hairing helped his brotber ? 2. Because his brother had promised me to do his work alone. 3. Do you advise your pnpils to read French newspapers ? 4. Tes, because it is a good practice. 5. Did Mr. So-and-So speak to you aijout his German lessons ? 6. It was I who persuaded him to study that language. 1 asked my friend Louis, who knows German, to help him. 7. Is this your new dictionary? It is in bad shape. Ton should forbid the children to play with it. 8. I never allow anybody to use my books in my absence ; but sometimes my orders are not heeded.

Ex. 10. Préposition A. §3.

1. Why does he not obey his physician ? 2. He always disobeys him, because the doctor forbids him to drink coffee and to smoke. 3. Did you tell him that it is not wise to disregard 1 his physician's orders ? 4. His parents forbade that man to use coffee, when he was ten years old. 5. That did not please him, I suppose, and indnced him to do just the reverse. 6. That raay be. Anyway, ail this does not please his brother either, because they tLsed to drink and smoke together. 7. Does his brother resemble him ? 8. They are as like as two peas,> or, if you like it better this way, they resemble one another as mach as a good-for-nothing can resemble another.

» Résister &.

* " Se ressembler comme deux gouttes d'eau."

Ex. 11. Préposition A {divers).

1. This is badly done : it is to begin again. 2. But I hâve to get my dinner now. 3. You hâve always an excuse ready. I begin to nnderstand ; you are very lazy and you cannot make up your mind to work. 4. No, I do not give up doing the work you gave me, only I bave something to do first. 5. Well, you begin to make me tired Think of it. I shall not wait any longer. 6. Ail right. Tell me what is to be done with that box. 7. It is to be taken upstairs. 8 Did you give up packing your things in it ? 9. Tes, I cannot make up my mind to go away. 10. What? Do you hesitate to go to Europe» 11 . I do not succeed in making my plans. 13. Why do you not invite your cousin to go along ? He might teach you how to make up yoor mind quickiy. 13. He is too shy to endeavor to teach anybody.