Caliste Auguste De Liancourt
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 28
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...we went. (4.) Conditional. j'irais, I should go. nous irions, we should go. (5.) Imperativei allons, let us go. va, go thou. allez, go ye. qu'il aille, let him go. qu'ils aillent, let them go. (6.) Subjunctive. que j'aille, that I may go. que nous allions, that we may go: (7.) imperfect. que j'allasses, that I might que nous allassions; that go. we might go. Is compounded with the verb etre, to be. (8.) je suis alle, I am gone. j'etais alle, I was gone Conjugated with the personal pronoun. (9). Present. Future. je m'en vais; I go. je m'en irai; I shall go Fifteenth historiette. Verbs Impersonal. 170.--The impersonal verbs are used only in the third person singular, as: il pleut, it rains. il tonne, it thunders. 171.--Impersonal verbs have, like other verbs, different tenses, as: 'Valoir, to be worth. Indicative, il vaut mieux, it is better. Past participle, valu-e, been worth. il a, il avait, il eut 1 mieux valu. it has beent it had been ) better. 172.--Avoir is used as an impersonal verb with the pronoun il y a: il y a, il y avait, there is, there was. 173.--The verb Falloir, to be necessary, is conjugated as an impersonal, but it is generally followed by another verb in the subjunctive, as: Il faut que je fasse, I must do. Il faut que tu donnes, You must give. Sixteenth historiette, as before. Lesson The Nineteenth. Adverbs. 174.--Show the manner in which an action is done. They are formed from adjectives, as! Charles studies well, his sister writes correctly. Well and correctif are adverbs. Bien bati, well built. Ecrit correctement, written correctly. An adverb is generally placed after the verb. It can never be placed between the verb and the pronoun, as is sometimes the case in English: She wisely will...
