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 ^ obéira parler à « penser à '^ réfléchir à ressembler à
satisfaire à servir à 8 songer à succéder à suppléer à survivre à touchera»
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 fiera
s'habituer à s'exercer à se mêler à se mettre à s'occuper à lo se préparer à
se rapporter à se résigner à se résoudre à se soumettre à se soustraire à se vouer à
1 Dans les sens à'^apprauver seulement (applaudir à une action).
* Dans le sens de " être présent à."
* Emploie "avec," s'il s'agit d'une comparison ou d'une étude approfondie.
* " To escape something." Echapper rfe, dans le sens " to escape from." ■ S'il s'agit d'un instrument de musique, on dit : jouer de,
* *♦ Parler de" signifie " to speak aoout" » Voir note 4, page 19.
8 ** Servir à," to ne used for ; " servir de," to be used as, to act as.
* To tamper with.
ï» Voir note 8, page 19.
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Exercice sur les Prépositions.
Ux. 1. (Construction élémentaire,)^
1. To be or not to be, that is the question. 2. Well, to hâve or not to hâve is just as important. 3. You look depressed to-day. 4. Yes, I am sorry to hâve bought this horse ; it is lame. 5. As for me, I am sorry not to be at the theater. But I am glad not to hâve bought the horse you spoke of. You see, I am very élever. 6. It is not difflcult not to be cheated in a bargain when one has no money to buy {for to huy) anything. 7. Well, there is some good in everything. For instance, when one is poor and unhappy, it is easy not to hâve many eneniies. 8. Yes, just as easy as it is diffîcult to hâve many friends and admirers.
* Rappeler à l'élève qne : l® SI Tinllnltlf est employé seul, au débat d'ime phrase, le '^ to " anglais ne se traduit pas : 2<^ Devaut riiiflnitif, les deux négations sont généralement réunies (ne pas avoir).
Ez. 2. ( Un peu plus difficile. )
1. I hâve no time to go to the post-office, and I hâve 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 how many stamps you want on each parcel. I am not patient enough {hnve not enmigh patience) to hâve ail thèse things weighed at the office. 5. I hâve no means to weigh thèse parcels, but, if you hâve no time to do it at the postoffice, you can affix a flve-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 wiiiing {désireux) to help you, but I think you are not very willing to work. 3. It is not fair to speak that way without knowing me. 4. Well, I hâve 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 five people ? I would be glad to do anything. 8. To work, one must be healthy. It is necessary to hâve a trade of some kind. I hâve been often deceived by people like you. Day before yesterday, a man said to me, *'Give me some bread and cheese, with a glass of wine, and I shall chop wood for you." 1 fed him, but he did nothing. When I asked him why he had not chopped the wood, he replied, "I would be glad to do it for you, but it is better to teach you a lesson. There it is : Ne ver trust the word {sejier â) of an uttep étranger."
Ex. 4. Verbes smis Prépositions.
Dear sir :
I expect to go to Versailles next Sunday. I wish to go there by train, in order to see the country. Corne to meet me at the dépôt, Montparnasse station. Sister says that she is not willing to wait (to be willing : vouloir) for you very long. So, be punctual. It is absolutely necessary to start, at the latest, at 10 a.m. If you are late, as you generally are, run and take a cab, and do not try to walk to the dépôt. We thought, a moment, that we would go to Versailles
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alone. bat we do not know how to speak French : I mean we do not dare to speak with Parisians, for they seem to be yeiy stapld, aod always preteod not to anderstand us when we speak.
Youp friend,
Bx, 6. Verbes sans Prépositions {second exercice).^
1. I think of going to the country a week from to-morrow. 3. I remember hearing you say that three times already, slnce yesterday. 8. I do not believe I told you so. As you are always joklng, I shall pay no attention to this remark. 4. Do yoa hope to stay long theref 5. I hope to ineet my oncle 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 seeins to be iu good spirits. Tes» 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 corne down to meet you in the halL
> n n'y a pas seolemcntf dans cet exercice, des verbes ne prenant pas de prépositions ; e^est à l'élève i voir dans quels cas il ne faut pas de prépoisition, et dans quels cas on doit employer '^ de " on *"■ poar."
* Rappeler que ** do yoa not" ne peut pas se traduire ici par ** n*c*6t-cepas," parceqne le verbe principal (to laugh) et ^^ do " n'ont pas le même sujet n faut dire: '' et vous ?" U n'eu serait pas de mÔme si la phrase était: '^you lang^ do you notî" (vous riez, n'est-ce pas?)
lîx, 6. Préposition A. §1. a et h,
1. This house is to be sold, at once, for the landlord wants monej. 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 t 4. No, the barn and the orchard are to let only. 5. Well, corne along. I know yonr courage in facing landlords and janitors : you will help me in bargaining with them. 6. I will go. But first,
Îou must help me in translating this German sentence. 7. Willingly. t is easy. There it is : **There is more glory in dying like Nelson than in living 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 f 9. Why do you ask ? 10. Because there is not a minute to lose. The mail closes at noon, and it is 11.80 now. 11. It is my brother^s fault. He spent so much time reading, that he forgot au about the letter.
Ex. 7. Préposition A. %2 (verbes prenant **à" et "Je").
1. I am not ashamed to ask that raan to help me, for he promised ail his friends to do something to better their condition and to enable them to succeed in life. 2. It is not always easy to succeed. 8. I take the liberty of observing that it is not diflacult to make a living (to eam oné's l^e)^ when oue bas decided to work for a living. 4. I certainly — I mean : eariiestly expect to succeed. I expect to make a gnreat 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 clilckens.* " 6. X 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 strictly. Father ne ver allowed his children to go out or to Uave a good time.
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Ex. 8. Même sujet
1. You must tell that gentleman not to corne any more. Father forbids him to come. 2. Indeed, I advised him several times already to stay away. 3. Why do you not ask his brother to help you In that case? 4. His brother Is just as tactless as he is. A marrled lady, whom he knovvs but little, asked him one day, *' What is the différence between a dialogue and a monologue?" ** Well," he said,^ "when two women talk it's a dialogue. When a woman carries on a conversation wlth her husband it is a monologue." 5. To speak of something more serions, ^ tell me why your uncle advised Miss Backwoods to go to that Blank school. 6. How can I know ? 7. If 1 wer© he, I would suggest to her to go to a collège. 8. Father proposed to her to send a letter to the principal of our oid collège, but she told him to mind his own business. 9. Did they reprove this young lady for beingrude? 10. Whq, they? 11. Her parents. 12. Y es, they ^ advised her to be more gentle in the future.
» Faire observer qn'en français, on emploie de préférence rinversinn (dit-il).
* Rappeler les règles de " quelque chose, quelqu^on, rien," etc., suivis d'an adjectif.
JSx. 9. Même sujet.
1. Why did you reprove this man for having helped his brother ? 2. Because his brother had promised me to do his work alone. 3. Do you advlse your pupils to read French newspapers ? 4. Yes, because it is a good practice. 6. Did Mr. So-and-So speak to you about his Gernian lessons ? 6. It was I who persuaded him to study that language. I aâked my frieud Louis, who knows German, to help him. 7. Is this your new dictionary? It i» in bad shape. You 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.
Ux. 10. Préposition A §3.
1. Why does he not obey his physician ? 2. He always disobeys him,because the doctor forbids him to drink cofifee and to smoke. 3. Did you tell him that it is not wise to disregard i his physiclan'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 induced him to do just the reverse. 6. That may be. Anyway, ail this does not please his brother either, because they used to drink and smoke together. 7. Does his brother resemble him ? 8. They are as llke as two peas,* or, if you like it better this way, they resemble one another as much as a good-for-nothing can resemble another.
1 Résistera.
> *< Se ressembler comme deux gonttes d'eau.*'
Ex. 11. Préposition A (divers).
1. This is badly donc : it is to begin agaln. 2. But I hâve to get my dinner now. 3. You hâve always an excuse ready. I begin to understand ; 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 hâve something to do first. 5. Well, you begin to make me tired. Thlnk of it. I shall not wait any longer. 6. AU 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. Yes, I cannot make up my mind to go away. 10. What ? Do you hesitate to go to Europe f 11. I do not succeed in making my plans. 12. Why do you not invite your cousin to go along ? He might teach you how to make up your mind quickly. 13. He is too shy to endeavor to teach anybody.
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