Voici mes livres et ceux de Jean. Here are my books and John's.
Voici mes plumes et celles que vous Here are my pens and those that
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
grand poète. latter a great novelist.
C'est mon ami.--Ce sont He (it) is my friend.--It is
eux.--C'est moi.--C'est un they.--It is I.--He is a
poète.--C'est difficile, etc. poet.-It is difficult, etc.
Ceci est le mien, cela est le This (indefinite) is mine, that is
vôtre. 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: