Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar / to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language

by Ferdinando Bottarelli

1. 1. It is permitted
   2. perméttere
   3. to a sick person
   4. ammaláto
   5. to complain.
   6. [1]lamentársi.

1. 1. It is not
   2. polite
   3. civíle
   4. to interrupt
   5. interrómpere
   6. any one who speaks.
   7. uno che parláre.

1. 1. It is
   2. right
   3. giústo
   4. to correct
   5. corréggere
   6. boys
   7. ragázzo
   8. whilst
   9. mentre
   10. they are young.
   11. éssere gióvane.

1. 1. It is a
   2. great satisfaction
   3. grande soddisfazióne
   4. to people of feeling
   5. sensíbile gente
   6. to hear that
   7. sentíre
   8. their friends
   9. amico
   10. are in perfect health.
   11. éssere perfétto salúte.

1. 1. It is a
   2. great pleasure
   3. gran piacére
   4. to see brothers
   5. vedére fratéllo
   6. well united together;
   7. bene unito insiéme
   8. but
   9. ma
   10. it is a
   11. great grief
   12. grande dispiacére
   13. to see them disagree.
   14. vedére discórdia.

1. 1. It is not
   2. always proper
   3. sempre convenévole
   4. to correct children
   5. corréggere ragázzo
   6. for the faults they commit;
   7. fallo comméttere
   8. but it is
   9. ma
   10. very necessary
   11. molto necessário
   12. to make them sensible of them.
   13. fare accórgersi

1. 1. It is easy
   2. fácile
   3. to give advice,
   4. dare consíglio
   5. but difficult
   6. ma diffícile
   7. to execute.
   8. eseguíre.

1. 1. It is easy
   2. to perceive
   3. accórgersi
   4. you neglect
   5. trascuráre
   6. your business.
   7. affáre.

1. 1. It was
   2. ever commendable
   3. sempre lodévole
   4. to study
   5. studiáre
   6. languages.
   7. lingua.

[1] See Veneroni’s Grammar, p. 147, on reciprocal verbs.