The Oxford and Cambridge French Grammar: For Schools and Private Pupils Preparing for the Oxford, Cambridge and College of Preceptors' Local Examinations .... Master's copy (Parts I and II)Hachette and Company, 1903 |
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... object as a course preparatory for examinations , at the same time can be used with equal advantage by those who have no final test to work for , but who simply aim at acquiring a thorough knowledge of French in an attractive manner ...
... object as a course preparatory for examinations , at the same time can be used with equal advantage by those who have no final test to work for , but who simply aim at acquiring a thorough knowledge of French in an attractive manner ...
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... recevra ; il dé- fendra . IV . DICTATION . - These dictations are meant to attain a twofold object : to help the pupil to master French orthography and to train his ear to catch French sounds . 78 THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FRENCH GRAMMAR .
... recevra ; il dé- fendra . IV . DICTATION . - These dictations are meant to attain a twofold object : to help the pupil to master French orthography and to train his ear to catch French sounds . 78 THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FRENCH GRAMMAR .
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... object , etc. : — L'AVARE ET LA PIE . - Un avare comptait son argent tous ies jours une pie s'échappa de sa cage , vint subtilement enlever une guinée , et courut la cacher dans une crevasse du plancher . L'avare apercevant la pie ...
... object , etc. : — L'AVARE ET LA PIE . - Un avare comptait son argent tous ies jours une pie s'échappa de sa cage , vint subtilement enlever une guinée , et courut la cacher dans une crevasse du plancher . L'avare apercevant la pie ...
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... object , etc. : - LE LOUP ET LA CIGOGNE . - Un loup affamé , et qui plus est , très glouton , ayant avalé trop goulûment un quartier d'agneau , un petit os pointu était resté dans sa gorge : par malheur il ne pouvait pas crier au ...
... object , etc. : - LE LOUP ET LA CIGOGNE . - Un loup affamé , et qui plus est , très glouton , ayant avalé trop goulûment un quartier d'agneau , un petit os pointu était resté dans sa gorge : par malheur il ne pouvait pas crier au ...
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... object , etc. : - LE COQ ET LE RENARD .- " Frère , dit un renard de bon appétit à un vieux coq perché sur les branches d'un chêne , nous ne sommes plus ennemis je viens t'annoncer une paix générale ; descends vite que je t'embrasse ...
... object , etc. : - LE COQ ET LE RENARD .- " Frère , dit un renard de bon appétit à un vieux coq perché sur les branches d'un chêne , nous ne sommes plus ennemis je viens t'annoncer une paix générale ; descends vite que je t'embrasse ...
Common terms and phrases
A.-Translate orally adjective adverb agrees arrive arrived Asterisks attain a twofold B.-This exercise B.-Translate into French Book compound tenses CONDITIONAL conjugated conjugation denoting DICTATION.-These dictations ending examples feminine first flatté flattered followed following idioms following rules François Ier friends give back given good great house I.-Learn the following II.-Write Infinitive Infinitives.-1 interrogatively irregular verb J'ai Junior and Senior.-The Junior.-This English exercise KING WILLIAM STREET know learn these words leave LESSON little look made make masc meaning money MOOD negatively never noun one's oneself ourselves Papers Past Participle PAST PERFECT Past tense placed PLUPERFECT plural poète prepared preposition PRESENT PARTICIPLE present perfect PRESENT TENSE pronoun pun-is punish pupils unaided read receive rend-e same Senior Senior.-Learn the following Senior.-The following sentences simple tenses Subjunctive Mood take think THIRD thou time translate translated twofold object used Vocabulary years
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Page 90 - Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes.
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Page 90 - He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue.
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Page 130 - All the sounds that Nature utters are delightful, at least in this country. I should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass.