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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... will convince the reader of the justice of our claims to having based our pub- lication on an entirely new system , the advantages of which we beg here to enumerate . I. Our work is based on the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Papers ...
... will convince the reader of the justice of our claims to having based our pub- lication on an entirely new system , the advantages of which we beg here to enumerate . I. Our work is based on the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Papers ...
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... will be found most practical . The rules are also written in that comprehensive spirit which characterises the ques- tions asked in Examination papers . III . Our grammar being divided into " parts or years , " into " terms , " and ...
... will be found most practical . The rules are also written in that comprehensive spirit which characterises the ques- tions asked in Examination papers . III . Our grammar being divided into " parts or years , " into " terms , " and ...
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... will help teachers to make the Senior course of study a really instructive and interesting one . 2. From 500 to 600 idiomatic expressions have been introduced in the 2nd part , and as carefully graduated as possible . 3. Our exercises ...
... will help teachers to make the Senior course of study a really instructive and interesting one . 2. From 500 to 600 idiomatic expressions have been introduced in the 2nd part , and as carefully graduated as possible . 3. Our exercises ...
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... will put an end to the perfect chaos of denominations under which French and English verbs labour , and be understood by students of English and Latin as well as by French scholars . * 6. Acting on the kind suggestions of several ...
... will put an end to the perfect chaos of denominations under which French and English verbs labour , and be understood by students of English and Latin as well as by French scholars . * 6. Acting on the kind suggestions of several ...
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... the pupil to translate he had no bread - they will not have any bread — she would have some bread — you would not have had any bread , etc. , etc. : FIRST LESSON I. — Learn the following rules and Nos DIRECTIONS. ...
... the pupil to translate he had no bread - they will not have any bread — she would have some bread — you would not have had any bread , etc. , etc. : FIRST LESSON I. — Learn the following rules and Nos DIRECTIONS. ...
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
Popular passages
Page 39 - She looked a little, old woman, so short-sighted that she always appeared to be seeking something and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous and spoke with a strong Irish accent.
Page 112 - ... transmitting his features to posterity ; and his features were such as no artist could fail to seize, and such as, once seen, could never be forgotten. His name at once calls up before us a slender and feeble frame, a lofty and ample forehead, a nose curved like the beak of an eagle, an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin, and deeply furrowed by sickness and by care. That pensive,...
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.
Page 170 - Sire, ce n'est pas tout que d'être roi de France, II faut que la vertu honore votre enfance; Un roi sans la vertu porte le sceptre en vain. Qui ne lui est sinon un fardeau dans la main.
Page 22 - Que je sois, That I may be. que tu sois, that thou mayst be. qu'il soit, that he may be. que nous soyons, that we may be. que vous soyez, that you may be. q'uils soient, that they may be.
Page 159 - Résumé de l'histoire de la littérature française depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours.
Page 84 - Je m'assieds, tu t'assieds, il s'assied, nous nous asseyons, vous vous asseyez, ils s'asseyent.
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.
Page 23 - J'aurai été, Tu auras été, II aura été, Nous aurons été, Vous aurez été, Ils auront été...
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.