French Conversation and Composition
Grammar Review.--Lesson Iv
Écrivez cette histoire en 250 mots.
Quels mots y a-t-il dans cette histoire que vous n'aviez pas encore étudiés?
GRAMMAR REVIEW.--LESSON IV
Future and conditional tenses.--The demonstrative adjective.--
Meanings of present tense.--Est-ce que.--Use of past tenses.
Examples
Il sera déjà parti. He must have (probably has) left.
Le ferez-vous? Will you (are you going to) do it?
But: Voulez-vous le faire? Will you (are you willing to, do
you want to) do it?
Étudiez-vous? Do you study; are you studying?
J'étudie. I study; I am studying.
Je voudrais partir. I would like to go.
Ils ne sauraient trouver le They couldn't possibly (wouldn't
chemin. know how to) find the way.
Il a chanté la Marseillaise He sang the Marseillaise. } Il chanta la Marseillaise (literary). (coloquial)
Il chantait. He was singing, used to sing, etc.
Est-ce que votre père est arrivé? Has your father arrived? Votre père est-il arrivé? }
Ce garçon, cet homme, cette This (or that) boy, man, woman,
femme, ces livres-ci, ces plumes-these books, those pens.
là.
A. 1. That boat yonder is going to depart. 2. This Irishman is pulling
a cable. 3. The length of this cable doubtless must[1] have[1]
exhausted his patience. 4. I'd like to leave this evening.[2] 5. The
sultan's favorite threw this stone. 6. Is revenge permitted[3] men? 7. If my enemy were[4] powerful, revenge would be imprudent. 8. If I