French Conversation and Composition
103. Sentence Contre les Mouches
vous avez achetées. you bought.
J'ai deux montres. Aimez-vous I have two watches. Do you like
celle-ci ou celle-là? this one or that one?
Lamartine et Balzac. Celui-ci est Lamartine and Balzac. The
un grand romancier; celui-là un former is a great poet, the latter a
grand poète. great novelist.
C'est mon ami.--Ce sont eux.-- He (it) is my friend.--It is they.--It
C'est moi.--C'est un poète.--C'est is I.--He is a poet.-It is difficult,
difficile, etc. etc.
Ceci est le mien, cela est le vôtre. This (indefinite) is mine, that is
yours.
A. 1. Do you see my dogs? These are greyhounds, those are
dachshunde. 2. They[1] are good dogs. 3. I hear a[2] noise; it[1] is
burglars. 4. It was a burglar, but it[3] seemed to me a little late to go
down. 5. I want to learn that one[4] of the sciences which is most
difficult. 6. These soldiers are better fed than those of Napoleon. 7.
That makes no difference.[5] 8. That's all right but look at this! 9. It[3]
would be difficult to imitate the grunt of a pig. 10. No, on the contrary,
it[1] would be easy. 11. That[1] is what he said. 12. Was[6] it you who
neglected this affair? 13. It was[6] we who did it. 14. I saw an officer
and a grenadier; the former was better dressed than the latter. 15.
Those who wish to be educated in this school must pay double what
those pay who are educated elsewhere. 16. The hardest thing[4]
is[7] to learn to[8] keep still. 17. What I ought to do is[7] to learn all
that[9] I can. 18. Let[4] my soldiers be[10] well dressed and well fed.
[Footnotes 1: what pronoun? 2: du. 3: il. 4: omit. 5: rien. 6: present tense. 7: c'est. 8: à. 9: ce que. 10: why subjunctive?]
B. Word Study. In the following anecdote substitute equivalents for
expressions in italics:
103. SENTENCE CONTRE LES MOUCHES