n de si (mismo).
6. Cuenta (he relies) consigo unicamente.
7. Se debe pensar a si y tambien a los otros.
8. Estos tejidos se llaman "uniones."
9. Las dos casas se escriben[87] en frances.
10. Estos tornos y estas sierras mecanicas (these lathes and sawing
machines) se mueven por motor electrico.
11. Se los ha perfeccionado mucho ultimamente.
12. ?Se envian las maquinas en secciones?
13. Si, Senor, y se las marca cuidadosamente para facilitar el montaje.
14. Se dice que llegaron grandes partidas de Cebada y Avena, ?piensa V.
que influiran en los precios?
15. Asi se cree.
16. Entonces resultara (or resultara pues) alguna ventaja para los
consumidores (consumers).
17. No puedo tacharme de imprevidencia (want of foresight) por no
haberme abastecido (supplied, stocked) a tiempo, pues (because) carecia
de los recursos necesarios para hacerlo (to do so).
[Footnote 87: Reflexive Pronouns in the plural are also Reciprocal.]
EXERCISE 2 (20).
Translate into Spanish--
1. I flatter myself that you will be pleased with (le gustaran) my
purchases seeing (visto) the firmness of prices at present.
2. We consider ourselves lucky (dichosos de) not to have listened to
their advice (consejo).
3. He is always speaking of himself and of his business.
4. He found himself a loser (a perder).
5. They declared themselves bankrupts (they filed their petition in
bankruptcy).
6. They wrote to each other often.
7. He respects himself.
8. He himself respects old customs.
9. We acknowledge we are wrong.
10. We acknowledge receipt of your favour (acusamos recibo de).
11. We shall gratefully acknowledge (agradeceremos infinito) any help
you may render (preste) to our friend.
12. We hope you will be very accurate in your figures.
13. The output (producto) for the first two months of the current year
was 18,668 lbs. dry rubber.
14. The bill market (los cambios) was very firm to-day but there was
little doing (poco se hizo).
15. Dealers were reluctant (se mostraron contrarios) to do business in
the securities.
16. Rubber shares were lifeless (muy desanimadas), but prices were
maintained (se mantuvieron).
LESSON XI.
(Leccion decima primera.)
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS.
A Possessive Adjective _accompanies a noun_; a Possessive pronoun
_stands for a noun_.
The =Possess
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