EXAMPLES

_Avoir_ verb: J'ai acheté des I have bought some flowers; did

fleurs; avez-vous vu les fleurs you see the flowers that I

que j'ai achetées? bought?

_Être_ verbs: reflexives, passives, and some intransitives (mainly

verbs of motion); see Lessons X, XI, XII.

A. 1. If I had recognized the actors, I would have accosted them.

2. Those rôles are easy, I have played them lots of times. 3.

Here are the five louis that[1] I stole from you. 4. I didn't

know that you[2] had stolen five. 5. Did you see the words that[1]

I carved on the door? 6. If I had possessed a garden, I would

have been content. 7. The painter forgot his position. 8. If

she had called them, they wouldn't have heard her. 9. They[3]

are good troops, but they have been beaten more than once. 10.

There are the melons which[1] I received. 11. I have run more

than[4] a league.[5] 12. Have you eaten many melons? 13. The

melons that[1] I have eaten were good. 14. When he had[6] left

the table, the chance was lost. 15. He lost the battle, too,

but he wouldn't have lost it if he had finished earlier. 16.

When you finish[7] I shall have given the signal to attack. 17.

I shall wait until she has[8] finished.

[Footnotes 1: que. 2: _supply_ en _after_ vous. _agreement

with_ en? 3: Ce. 4: _what proposition?_ 5: lieue (f.). 6: eut.

7: _tense?_ 8: _subjunctive. Why?_]

B. Use compound tenses, and substitute conjunctive pronouns for

words in italics in the following exercise:

1. A ragged man met _the actors_. 2. Didn't he recognize the

ladies? 3. The count has found _his servants_ sword in hand. 4.

They had stolen the _five louis d'or_. 5. He pulled _the money_

from his pocket. 6. He showed[1] me _his gardens_. 7. I saw _the

men_ appear. 8. He has forgotten _his position_. 9. He reached

_the end of the scaffolding_. 10. A mason has worked _at it_.

11. The artist didn't hear _the masons_. 12. The mason seized

_the brush_. 13. The mason's explanation changed _his wrath_

into gratitude. 14. He would have led _the troops_ against Henry

IV. 15. Henry IV's cavalry beat _his troops_. 16. He had received

_some good melons_.[2] 17. He left _the table_. 18. He had _lost

the opportunity_.

[Footnotes 1: montrer. 2: en, _partitive pronoun._]

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