Guises.

[Footnote 1: Why subjunctive?]

Quel etait le faible du duc?--Etait-il habile comme general?--Quelles
troupes conduisait-il?--Qu'est-ce que c'etait que la Ligue?--De quel
malheur la gloutonnerie du duc a-t-elle ete la cause un jour?--Quel
cadeau avait-il recu?--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 la-dessus?--A-t-il
gagne la bataille?--Pourquoi?

Racontez cette anecdote en 200 mots.

Quels mots vous a-t-il fallu chercher dans le vocabulaire?

GRAMMAR REVIEW.--LESSON IX

Compound tenses.--_Avoir_ and _etre_ as auxiliaries.--Agreement
of past participles: _Avoir_ verbs (all transitives and many
intransitives).

EXAMPLES

_Avoir_ verb: J'ai achete des I have bought some flowers; did
fleurs; avez-vous vu les fleurs you see the flowers that I
que j'ai achetees? bought?

_Etre_ 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 roles 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