This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...sitot; venez me voir auparavant: do not depart so soon; come and see me before you go. 3. Au travers, through or across, is followed by the preposition de; au travers des ennemis, through enemies: a travers is not followed by it: a travers les ennemis, through the enemy. ADVERBS. 1. Plus and davantage cannot always be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...sitot; venez me voir auparavant: do not depart so soon; come and see me before you go. 3. Au travers, through or across, is followed by the preposition de; au travers des ennemis, through enemies: a travers is not followed by it: a travers les ennemis, through the enemy. ADVERBS. 1. Plus and davantage cannot always be used indiscriminately: davantage cannot be followed by the preposition de nor by the conjunction que: you cannot say, il a davantage de brillant, que de solide: he has more brilliancy than solidity; but plus de brillant: you cannot say, il se fie davantage a ses lumieres qu'a celles des autres, he trusts more to his own intelligence, than that of others; but il se fie plus, etc. Davantage can be used only as an adverb: as la science est estimable, mais la vertu Pest bien davantage, science is estimable, but virtue is much more so. 2. Do not confound the adverb pres de, which means on the point of, with the adjective pret a, disposed to: you must not say, il est pret a tomber, he is ready to fall: but il est pres de tomber. 3. Do not confound a la campagne with en campagne: this last is used only in reference to troops: Parmee est en campagne; the army is in campaign: but you would say j'ai passe Pete a la campagne, I have passed the summer in the country. REGIMEN. Rule. A noun may be followed by two adjectives or two verbs at the same time, provided these adjectives or these verbs do not require each a different regimen. ORTHOGRAPHY OF THE VERBS. Indicative Present. Singular. 1. If the first person ends in e, add an s to the second: the third is like the first: j'aime, tu aimes, il aime, etc. 2. If the first person ends in s, the second is like the first: the third generally ends...
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