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Dedication. — 2. m’est venu. The position of me is before the verb ; with the positive imperative moi is used ; est, être with intransitive verbs.
3. Lucie sentira-t-elle. Forms of the interrogative sentence?
6. je ne sais. With savoir PAS may be omitted.
7. réservée. With être the past participle agrees with the subject in number and gender.
7. quelle qu’elle soit. Quel (quelle) with que and the subjunctive is rendered by whatever.
8. des plaisirs. State the rules of the partitive construction.
9. de te les offrir. State the rules for the position of te les.
1. — 5. en me berçant. En with present participle = while; all other prepositions govern the infinitive.
7. sans que. Prepositions + que form conjunctions governing
the subjunctive.
14, 15. quand…que. When two or more sentences begin with
quand, lorsque, puisque, the second clause is introduced by the
simple que.
2. — 2. de bonnes paroles. Why not des?
12. de village. Why de?
12, 13. à moi, emphatic, of my own.
13. pas plus que, any more than I have had, etc.
15. Chavanon, a very small village southeast of Limoges.
17 c’est. When is ce and when il used with être?
