14. Qu’est-ce que je me jurai solennellement?
III. SENTENCES ON SYNTAX AND IDIOMS
FOR VIVA VOCE PRACTICE
I (pp. 1—5)
1. There it was that I came into the world and spent the first years of my life.
2. Their uncle was a proud and miserly old man, and so nobody liked him.
3. I must say, to begin with, that my birth did not bring my father good luck.
4. From that moment the factory was on its last legs.
5. Soon there remained in the whole house only my brother and myself.
6. The child had been taught only reading and writing.