Novelas Cortas

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These exercises are based on the text of the preceding stories. The
passage indicated, consisting usually of only fifteen or twenty lines,
should be thoroughly studied before translating the exercise. The
special subject illustrated by the exercise should also be studied in
the grammar.



I. THE PRESENT TENSE

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1. He does not know what he is saying. 2. For a year I have been
pursuing these gypsies. 3. We know that they rob travelers every day. 4.
But the officers of the law never hit upon them. 5. The gypsies laugh
again. 6. We laugh again. 7. What we can not do no one can do [it]. 8.
We repeat that not only have they robbed him but they have assassinated