Quel était le faible du duc?--Était-il habile comme général?--Quelles troupes conduisait-il?--Qu'est-ce que c'était que la Ligue?--De quel malheur la gloutonnerie du duc a-t-elle été la cause un jour?--Quel cadeau avait-il reçu?--Y a-t-il fait honneur?--Qu'est-ce qu'on est venu lui dire?--Qu'est-ce qu'il aurait fallu faire tout de suite?--Pourquoi le duc n'est-il pas parti là-dessus?--A-t-il gagné la bataille?--Pourquoi?
Quels mots vous a-t-il fallu chercher dans le vocabulaire?
Compound tenses.--_Avoir_ and _être_ as auxiliaries.--Agreement of past participles: _Avoir_ verbs (all transitives and many intransitives).
_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_.