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abbiamo adjectives amato amici apostrophe arrived aunt avete beautiful believed bird book books bought bread brother buon candlestick child children conjugation contented country cousin cugina daughter diligent do not do you drink eglino Emily ending English Enrico Exercise fanciulli father feel feminine figlio finish flowers foreigner formed fratello friend friends garden gardener genitive German language giardino give good good mother happy Hast thou Henry house irregular joiner know lesson letter libro little lost love loved madre mistaken Mood mother My brother neighbour's never o'clock ombrella padre Participle Past Definite penna Plural poor pronounced pronouns rallegrati read received sculptor seen signore sister sorella sound speak Subjunctive substantives syllable take temperino think thou hast three three o'clock to-day to-morrow town uncle uncle's used venduto verbs vowel weather wife woman word words write written yesterday your
Popular passages
Page 90 - B. 1 wish you a good morning. I am happy to see you. I have not seen you this age. It is a novelty to see you. Pray, sit down. Sit down if you please.
Page 90 - I see you in health ? Do you continue in good health ? Pretty good, and how is yours ? Do I see you well ? Very well, and how do you do? How have you been since I had the pleasure of seeing you?
Page 89 - It thaws. It is very windy. The wind is very high. There is no air stirring. It lightens. It has lightened all night. It thunders. The thunder roars.
Page 87 - What o'clock is it? Pray tell me what time it is. It is one o'clock. It is past one. It has struck one. It is a quarter past one. It is half past one. It wants ten minutes of two.
Page 88 - It is on the stroke of three. It is going to strike three. It is ten minutes past three.
Page 127 - In passive verbs, the past participle agrees in gender and number with the noun or pronoun to which it refers ; the feminine is formed by adding an e mute, and the plural by the addition of an s.
Page 128 - I am not thou art not he is not we are not you are not they are not COMPOUND OF THE PRESENT.
Page 88 - It is very mild. It is cold. It is excessively cold. It is raw weather. It rains. It has been raining. It is going to rain. I feel some drops of rain. There are some drops of rain falling.