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  2. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...

  3. Conditional mood - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the English and French conditionals (an analytic construction in English, [c] but inflected verb forms in French), which are morphologically futures-in-the-past, [1] and of which each has thus been referred to as a "so-called conditional" [1] [2] (French: soi-disant conditionnel [3] [4] [5]) in modern and contemporary linguistics ...

  4. Politeness - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon in Punch magazine: 28 July 1920. Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others and to put them at ease. It is a culturally defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in another cultural context.

  5. French language - Wikipedia

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    French (français ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

  6. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home

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    Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (frequently referenced as Etiquette) is a book authored by Emily Post in 1922. [1] [2] The book covers manners and other social rules, and has been updated frequently to reflect social changes, such as diversity, redefinitions of family, and mobile technology. [3]

  7. Votes on the death of Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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    fr:Pierre-François Duboë, 1° oui, 2° oui, 3° détention pendant la guerre actuelle et bannissement à perpétuité après la paix, sous peine de mort en cas de rentrée sur le territoire français, 4° oui. fr:Jacques-Claude Dugué d'Assé, 1° oui, 2° oui, 3° bannissement, mais pour qu'il n'ait son exécution qu'après la paix, 4° oui.

  8. Standard French - Wikipedia

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    Standard French (in French: le français standard, le français normé, le français neutre ' Neutral French ' or le français international ' International French ') is an unofficial term for a standard variety of the French language. [1] It is a set of spoken and written formal varieties used by the educated francophones of several nations ...

  9. Latin conditional clauses - Wikipedia

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    Conditional clauses in Latin are clauses which start with the conjunction sī 'if' or the equivalent. [1] The 'if'-clause in a conditional sentence is known as the protasis, and the consequence is called the apodosis.