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125. And if the verb is in the Imperative?

126. What is the place of that pronoun joined to the Imperative negative? 127. How do you render to him; to her; to it; to them; in it; in them; by it?

128. Remark on the place of that pronoun.

129. What is the place of Y EN ?

130. Give four examples of the above.

131. Name the demonstrative pronouns.

132. Translate: IT IS; IT WAS; IT WILL BE; IT WOULd be.

133. Translate: THIS ONE; THAT ONE.

LÀ.

Remark on the use of CI and

134. Translate: IT IS THEY; IT IS MY FRIENDS.

135. Name the possessive pronouns.

136. Name the relative pronouns.

137. When are those pronouns named interrogative pronouns ?

138. What is the difference between QUI and QUE?

139. When is OU relative pronoun ?

140. How do you render oF WHICH generally? How do you render it

when interrogative?

141. How do you translate WHOSE in interrogations?

142. And if not interrogative?

143. Translate and remark on: The lady to whose dog you gave a kick. The actress with whose son I dined.

144. Name the Indefinite pronouns.

145. What word follows PERSONNE and RIEN before a verb? Examples. 146. Derive ON from the Latin.

147. When is ON preceded by L'? Name an exception.

148. What word is placed after QUELQU'UN before an adjective? 149. Before what other word besides an adjective is that the case? 150. What other word besides QUELQU'UN follows the same rule?

DIFFERENCES OF CONSTRUCTION.

151. Translate: The boy's book. The sailor's house.

church.

152. Remark on the above.

153. Translate: His umbrella. Her umbrella.

opera-glass.

154. Remark on the above.

The clergyman's

His opera-glass. Her

155. Translate: This money is mine. That purse is hers. Those

books are theirs.

156. Remark on the above.

157. Translate: His is white; hers is black.

158. Remark on the above.

159. Translate: What a nose! What a big spoon! What soldiers! 160. Remark on the above.

VERB.

161. Give the Indicative Present, Imperfect, Future, Conditional, and Subjunctive Present of AVOIR.

162. Translate: I HAVE NO NEEDLES; and say what word precedes a noun after the negative verb Avoir.

163. Give the above tenses of the verb ÊTRE.

AVOIR and ÊTRE?

What name do you give to

164. Name ten idioms in which the English verb TO BE is rendered in

French by AVOIR.

165. What do you call root and termination?

166. Give the Past Definite and the Imperfect Subjunctive of AVOIR and ÊTRE. Their Past Participle.

167. How many conjugations are there in French?

168. How do you distinguish them?

169. Give the Present Indicative, Imperfect, Future, and Conditional of a verb of the 1st and 4th conjugations.

170. Explain how the Future was formed.

derived tense?

171. What do you call primitive tense?
172.
173. How many primitive tenses are there?

174. What tenses are derived from the Infinitive?

175.

176.

177.

178.

Present Participle?
Past Participle?
Indicative Present?
Past Definite?

179. Give the Past Definite of laver, partir, valoir.

180. The above formation of tenses applies to simply irregular verbs; write a table of doubly irregular verbs.1

181. How do you form the negative verb?

182.

interrogative verb?

183. What do you observe on the auxiliary DO in negative and interrogative verbs?

184. How is the passive verb formed?

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1. For the Simplification of Verbs under the heads of " Simply Irregular" and Doubly Irregular Verbs," see "Petites Leçons de Conversation et de Grammaire."

185. What is the reflective verb ?

186. Name the pronouns used in conjugating a reflective verb.

187. What is an impersonal verb ?

188. Can ordinary verbs be made Reflective and Impersonal? Give examples.

189. What is an active verb?

Give examples.

190. What is a neuter verb? Give examples.

191. Name the only two irregular verbs of the 1st conjugation.

192. What is an 66 INCEPTIVE" and " NON-INCEPTIVE VERB"?

193. What do you know of verbs in MIR; VIR; TIR; VRIR; and FRIR?

194. Name six more verbs which are "non-inceptive."

195. What do you notice in all French verbs which have y in the Present Participle?

196. Mention the irregularities in the Future of COURIR and CUEILLIR. 197. Give the Present Participle of an Inceptive verb and the tenses derived therefrom.

α NON-INCEPTIVE VERB."

198. Do the same thing with 66

199. Is there a whole conjugation wholly "doubly irregular"? Name the only two exceptions.

200. Name the verbs which form their compounds with ÊTRE.

201. There are four verbs "doubly irregular" in the 2nd conjugation; name them.

202. How many verbs in ENIR are there?

203. What is the irregularity of the Future and Conditional of the above? 204.

and ACQUÉRIR.

MOURIR?

205. Name the only verb of the 4th conjugation "doubly irregular." 206. What is the irregularity of verbs in AINDRE; EINDRE; OINDRE? 207. Name other negations besides NE-PAS.

208. Name the three Latin verbs from which ALLER is formed. Remark on IL A ÉTÉ and IL EST Allé.

209. Give the Subjunctive Present of ALLER; VALOIR; VOULOIR. 210. Name three verbs which have the second person plural of the indicative present irregular.

211. Give the Subjunctive Present of POUVOIR; and the Indicative Present interrogative.

212. Write the Impersonal verb Y AVOIR. 1. Affirmatively; 2. negatively; 3. interrogatively.

213. Give examples of FALLOIR preceded by an objective personal

pronoun.

214. Give examples of FALLOIR followed by a verb in the Subjunctive. 215. Translate: I AM GOING TO PLAY; and give further examples of that and the following idiomatic tenses.

216. Translate: I HAVE JUST COME OUT.

217.

218.

219.

220.

I AM TO SING.

I HAVE HAD TO SCOLD.

I OUGHT TO WRITE; I OUGHT TO HAVE WRITTEN.

I WISH I WERE A BIRD; I WISH I HAD KNOWN THAT.

221. Remark on verbs in CER; like PERCER.

222.

223.

224.

225.

226.

in GER; like VENGER.

in EER; like CRÉER. And remark on their Past

Participle feminine.

in IER; like NIER.

in ELER and ETER; like APPELER; JETER.

Exceptions, like PELER; CACHEter.

in which the termination ER is preceded by any

consonant beside L or T; like PESER.

the last syllable of which is preceded by E mute or É; like MENER; ESPÉRER. in ÉGER; like ABRÉGER. in AYER; like ESSAYER. in verbs in

227.

228.

229. 230.

ESSUYER.

OYER, UYER ;'

like EMPLOYER,

ADVERB.

231. How is the adverb formed from an adjective ending in E, I, or U?

232.

otherwise?

233. How do you form an adverb from an adjective ending in ant or ent? Exceptions.

234. Some adjectives ending in e mute form their adverbs in ément; name

some.

235. Give the adverbs of PROFOND; OBSCUR; EXPRÈS; PRÉCIS; COMMUN; CONFUS; and MOMENTANÉ.

236. Give the adverbs of BEAU; NOUVEAU; FOU; MOU; GENTIL; IMPUNI; TRAÎTRE.

237. What is the place of adverbs of manner with a simple and a compound tense; and derive them from the Latin? 238. Name the adverbs of quantity and remark on them.

1. The Participle belongs to Syntax; it will be found there.

239. Name some adverbs of place; adverbs of time; and adverbial phrases. Remark on TARD and EN RETARD.

240. Name some adjectives which are used as adverbs.

PREPOSITION.

241. Name the most common prepositions.

242. What do you know of the repetition of French prepositions?

243. What is the meaning of CHEZ ?

244. How do you render IN before a name of country and before a name of town?

245. What is the difference between DANS and EN? Translate: DANS DEUX HEURES, and EN DEUX HEURES, and explain.

246. What is the difference between AVANT and DEVANT, and what is the word in opposition to each of those?

247. What is the difference between the use of WITH in English and AVEC in French?

248. Translate in two ways: FROM TWO O'CLOCK TILL TWELVE.

FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LONDON.

249. Remark on VERS and ENVERS.

250. Translate with a preposition: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? HOW LONG HAS SHE BEEN IN PARIS ?

CONJUNCTION.

251. Name some conjunctions.

252. Translate SINCE by a preposition and by a conjunction.

253. Name some conjugations which are followed by an Infinitive.

254.

255.

the Indicative.
the Subjunctive.

256. Translate: HE HAS COME WITHOUT A COAT.

257.

258.

259.

260.

BOTH IN BANK NOTES AND IN GOLD HE HAS GIVEN ME THREE THOUSAND FRANCS.

WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, I SHALL GO TO THE

PANTOMIME.

HE HAS NO BREAD; NOR I EITHER.
IT IS EITHER YOU OR CAROLINE.

INTERJECTION.

261. Name the ordinary interjections.

262. Translate: Murder! police! Stop thief!

263.

264.

265.

Fire fire! help!

Look out! take care!

Oh, dear me! Gently! gently!

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