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. 1901 Excerpt: ...place of a corridor, and gives access to different rooms at the same time. These rooms consist of2 a drawing-room, a dining-room, several bed-rooms, a kitchen and a pantry. With an attic room for the servantmaid, and a section of the immense cellar which is under the house, to store up the coals, wood and wine, the ...
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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. 1901 Excerpt: ...place of a corridor, and gives access to different rooms at the same time. These rooms consist of2 a drawing-room, a dining-room, several bed-rooms, a kitchen and a pantry. With an attic room for the servantmaid, and a section of the immense cellar which is under the house, to store up the coals, wood and wine, the French household considers itself properly housed; and it must be confessed that this arrangement, so different to ours, has advantages, and3 many of them. 1 " pieces" is used for rooms in a suite. 2 Note the French prep, following consister. s " and evea." APPENDIX I HINTS TO STUDENTS OBSERVATIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION Obs. A. In short anecdotes and in graphic narration, the use of the present tense is very frequent in French; and as it simply replaces the past definite, it may occur in the same paragraph with the imperfect. Obs. B. In northern France, the past (or preterite) definite is not much used in colloquial and informal language, its place being taken by the preterite (or past) indefinite, and occasionally by the imperfect. This should always be remembered in rendering the dialogue of the exercises. It should be noted, however, that the past definite is often used in sustained narration, which at once becomes more ceremonious, even when occurring in an otherwise informal setting. Similarly, the present subjunctive and the perfect (or compound present) are often used for the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive, respectively; but school-books are slow to recognize the custom, and the French Academy insists on the imperfect in a clause depending on a principal clause whose verb is in a compound tense. (See also Appendix II, Sequence of Tenses, p. 115.) Obs. C. In using the past tenses, take the past (or preterite) defi...
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