A Theoretical and Pratical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the Present Usage is Displayed, and All the Principal Difficulties Explained Agreeably to the Decisions of the French Academy ; to which are Added Some Select Familiar Phrases on the Principal Difficulties of the French LanguageE. Duyckinck, Collins and Company, 1823 - 452 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
2dly adjective adverbs Amphibology autre avant avez avoir avoit beau beauty bien c'est COMPOUND TENSES Cond conjugated conjunction consonant denotes devoir Dieu elle été étoit être EXAMPLES EXERCISE express faire fait falloir faut feminine feminine rhymes femme followed French French language frère FUTURE ABSOLUTE gender and number grand happy homme Imperf imperfect impersonal verb infinitive j'ai jamais jour l'autre livre masculine masculine rhymes mieux monde mute n'est never noun parlé participle past peine personal pronouns phrases placed pleasure PLUPERFECT plural preceded preposition pres present Pret preterit definite pron pronominal verbs proper qu'il qu'on quoi regimen relate relative pronoun REMARK rendre repent rhymes rien RULE s'en sentence SIMPLE TENSES singular sometimes sound speak Stanzas Subj subjunctive substantive syllables syllepsis temps thing thou tion tive tout verb voir vois vouloir voulu vowel words
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Página 408 - Want as much more, to turn it to its use; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
Página 241 - ... agrees with the first in preference to the other two, and with the second in preference to the third.
Página 407 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same.
Página 408 - Tis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Página 71 - Pronouns are used for the names of persons, or things. There are three persons : the first who speaks ; the second who is spoken to ; and the third is the person, or thing spoken of.
Página 407 - ... and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time...
Página 63 - The comparative of equality is formed by placing AUSSI, as, before the adjective, and QUE, as, after it.
Página 71 - In the personal pronouns, most of these properties are distinguished by the words themselves ; in the relative and the interrogative pronouns, they are ascertained chiefly by the antecedent and the verb. Obs. 2. — " The pronouns of the first and second persons, are both masculine and feminine ; that is, of the same gender as the person or persons they represent.
Página 38 - Ordinal, distributive, and proportional numbers, adjectives, and infinitives of verbs, prepositions, and adverbs, — all these, when used substantively, are masculine, as le tiers, le quart, un cinquieme...