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TEMPS COMPOSES DBS VEKBBS REaULIERS. 13<br />

(d) 1. That ( 204.) is all the same to me ( 188.). 2. What o'clock was it<br />

when you were on duty? 3. Where are your guests? They are up<br />

stairs. 4. What is an anglicism? 5. Whose turn is it to begin? 6. Who<br />

has told him that? It is ( 207, a. 2) myself who told him that. 7. Let<br />

them be happy! as for us, we shall always be satisfied with what little<br />

we have. 8. You will find this quotation in the epistles of Horace.<br />

9. Have you found it? Yes, here it is, in the second book: 'Par-<br />

X e<br />

'<br />

turiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus ! 10. How do you render that<br />

in French? 'C'est la montagne qui enfante une souris.' 11. We are<br />

all of one mind. 12. It will be impossible for him to come. 13. Are<br />

you warm enough? 14. Is he not right? 15. How long have they been<br />

here? 16. Why do you not join us? I have a cold.<br />

legon: Temps composes des Verbes reguliers. 79,<br />

(a) J'ai, j'avais, j'eus<br />

I have, I had<br />

j'aurai, j'aurais \ parle, pun!, aperqil, de*fendu.<br />

1 shall (should) have j spoken, punished 9 perceived, defended.<br />

j'aie, j'eusse<br />

I may (might) have<br />

Je suis, j'e'tais, je fus<br />

I have. I had .,<br />

je serai, je serais<br />

I shall have, I should have<br />

je sois, je fusse<br />

I may have, I might have<br />

tombe, parti, descendu.<br />

80 84.<br />

tombee, partie, descendue. ( 8687.)<br />

fallen, set out, descended.<br />

Elle<br />

Elles<br />

a,<br />

out,<br />

avait, etc.<br />

avaient, etc.<br />

1<br />

/<br />

.,<br />

Parle '<br />

Elle est, e*tait, etc. tombee, partie, descendue.<br />

Elles sont, e"taient, etc. tombees, parties, descendues.<br />

ObS. L'Indejini indique V action comme passee, mais sans relation nfoessaire<br />

a une epoque determinee. 11 s'emploie aussi de preference dans le style fcmilier.<br />

(Gr.<br />

i37J<br />

J'ai parle a votre frere ce matin. J spoke to your brother this mormng.<br />

Je suis venu tout expres. 1 came on purpose.<br />

Remarquez aussi V exception a la 13%? regie:<br />

Je suis ici depuis hier. I have been here since yesterday.<br />

II y a longtemps qu'elle est ici. She has been here long ago.<br />

(b) 1. Au mois de mars 1815 le Moniteur universel (journal officiel) a donne<br />

successivement les nouvelles suivantes de 1'arrivee de Napoleon en France:<br />

2. L' anthropophage est sorti de son repaire. L'ogre de Corse a debarau<br />

golfe Juan. Le tigre est arrive a Gap. Le monstre a couche<br />

Grenoble. Le tyran a traverse Lyon. L'usurpateur a ete vu

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