French Grammar in Context

28 Prepositions Text Ils sont tous là, sanshistoire et sansdéfilé: Ben, César, Yves Klein, Arman ou Martial Raysse. On ne sait p ...

Prepositions 187 Prepositions in the text 1 USAGE A preposition is a word which is placed before another word or phrase in the s ...

188 French Grammar in Context d dansusually indicates a precise location e.g. dans un poème(line 38) = in a poem dans l’un des h ...

Prepositions 189 c pour, e.g.on peut l’aimer pour ses musées(lines 77–8) = you can love it for/because of its museums. 8 PREPOSI ...

190 French Grammar in Context It is also used instead of en(see 1babove) when the name of the country is further qualified e.g. ...

Prepositions 191 Compound prepositions are also used with infinitives. These include afin de, avant de, à moins de(see also Chap ...

192 French Grammar in Context d Il est au lit ______ une semaine. e C’est très rapide: ça se fait ______ cinq minutes. f Il est ...

Prepositions 193 4 Fill the blanks in the text with one of the following prepositions: à/au/aux, avant (de), dans, d’/de/des, de ...

194 French Grammar in Context l’achèvement ______ la statue à temps, la fête avait été déplacée au 8 décembre 1852, jour de la F ...

29 Conjunctions Le 9 décembre 1905, le député socialiste Aristide Briand fait voter la loi de séparation des Églises etde l’État ...

196 French Grammar in Context Conjunctions in the text 1 PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS In French a conjunction differs from a pr ...

Conjunctions 197 b A coordinating conjunction cannot normally be placed at the beginning of a sentence. c Coordinating conjuncti ...

198 French Grammar in Context Discover more about conjunctions a Coordinating conjunctions can also join verbs in a clause. b Ot ...

Conjunctions 199 Price, pp. 539–48 Turk and Vandaele, pp. 4, 179, 237–9, 275 EXERCISES 1 Fill the blanks by using an appropriate ...

200 French Grammar in Context 4 Fill the blanks using an appropriate conjunction (coordinating or subordinating) from the list p ...

30 Word order Elles nous paraissent aujourd’hui blanches et austères. Au Moyen Âge, les églises étaient bigarrées, rutilantes de ...

202 French Grammar in Context Word order in the text INVERSION OF SUBJECT AND VERB a In French, as in English, the subject usual ...

Word order 203 cElsewhere, the use of inversion is not compulsory, but an optional stylistic feature of careful, usually written ...

204 French Grammar in Context Present participles: explosant (line 7); ornant (line 35); accentuant (line 82); and gerunds: tou ...

Word order 205 f Inversion may occur with verbs such as apparaître, rester and suivre when the focus/emphasis is on the subject ...