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SUBSTANTIFS.
quoi servent les epouvantails?
A eloigner les oiseaux. 8. Les hiboux sont des oiseaux de nuit, ils
ont les yeux ronds. 9. Centre les filous il n'y a jamais trop de verrous.
10. Les deux Corneille sont nes a Rouen. 11. Aimez-vous ces operas?
Oui, il y a des duos et des solos charmants. 12. A quoi peut-on
comparer les oiseaux -mouches? A des bijoux de la nature. 13. Je
me sens saisi de frissons! Prenez garde! ce sont les avant-coureurs
de la fievre. 14. Les bestiaux paissent sur les coteaux.
(c) 1. Ou trouve-t-on les coraux? 2. Quels sont les chefs-d'oeuvre de
Corneille? 3. Comment se forment les arcs-en-ciel? 4. Quels sont les
chefs-lieux des comtes de Cornouailles et de Kent?
(d) 1. All these scourges have caused many
(a)
evils. 2. The canals of Holland
are covered with ( 132. 9) hoats. 3. Cattle (plur.) is abundant on the
mountains of Switzerland. 4. (The) owls seek [out] dark places. 5. Vessels
have rudders. 6. The wealth (plur.) of the patriarchs consisted in cattle
(plur.); especially in goats, sheep, camels, oxen and asses; but they had
neither* horses nor pigs. 7. Deleterious gases rise from (the) swamps.
8. Carnivals are times devoted to folly. 9. Screech-owls and bats are
night-birds. 10. Were our ancestors right in saying ( 155. a) that their
descendants would be more wicked than themselves? 11. It (ce) was
Mazarin who caused the first operas to be represented ( 154) in Paris.
12. Among all royal families that of the Stuarts and that of the Bourbons
have been the most unfortunate. 13. Almost all paintings of Eaphael
are masterpieces. 14. Eelate to me all the details of the history of the
Gracchi. *see p. 146, Appendix to 170 (a).
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leQon:
Genre des substantifs. 23 26.
Appendice
112 115.
Mettez Varticle defini devant les substantifs qui commencent par une consonne,
et Varticle indefini devant ceux qui commencent par une voyelle ou un h muet :
V^suve, cuivre (copper), poire, poirier, noix, noyer (walnut-tree), mai,
hiver, vendredi, Prusse, chimie, avarice, jonquille, chandeleur (CandlemasJ,
peinture (painting), peuplier (poplar), Portugal, Pays-bas, (Netherlands),
Paris, Bretagne, vigne, (vine).
b) etui, case; sein, bosom; the, tea; vent, wind; opera; jeu, game; pitie,
pity; sac, sack; palais, palace; roc, rocJc; envoi, sending; clou, nail;
main; train; paradis; tailleur, tailor; douceur, sweetness; mot, ivord;
cortege, procession ; vocabulaire; grammaire; vue, sight; beaute; voyage;
taille, watstf; colonne, column; veille, nightwatch; calice, chalice; ville,
image; promenade; pianiste; interstice; voliere, aviary; annee; papillon;