French Grammar in Context

jaunie comme la feuille prête à tomber, meurtrie comme un fruit blet, la vue presque éteinte. Je ___________ (penser) à la grand ...

d Ils partirent aussitôt qu’ils __________ (recevoir) le message de détresse. e La cérémonie commença quand le roi __________ (s ...

6 The future and future perfect Bretagne, Pays de la Loire, Normandie. Un vent violent de sud-ouest puis d’ouest soufflera du Fi ...

The future in the text 1 USAGE The future is used much in the same way in French as it is in English. It is used for events whic ...

Expressions of space: du... à/au(lines 3–4, 7); en(lines 14, 16); dans l’intérieur(lines 17, 37); au nord de(line 46) (see Chap ...

f The future can be found as a narrative tense expressing events which occurred in the past. The narrator looks into the future ...

32 French Grammar in Context É. Zola, Germinal ‘À mort les bourgeois! vive la sociale!’ Rose continuait à rire, dans le vestibul ...

Discover more about the future perfect a The future perfect can describe an event scheduled to happen at some date in the future ...

Je __________ cles yeux fixés sur mes pensées, Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit, Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé ...

g Vous __________ (traduire) bientôt ce document? h Elle __________ (se demander) où j’étais partie. 8 Make sentences with the f ...

The present conditional in the text 1 USAGE a ‘Future in the past’ Normally, if an event is narrated in the present, future even ...

b Si+ imperfect (see Chapter 3) In sentences where a condition is expressed (si+ imperfect), the main verb is in the present con ...

e In indirect speech, if the main verb is in the past tense, future action is indicated by the conditional (see Future in the pa ...

2 FORMATION The past conditional is formed by using the present conditional of avoiror êtreand the past participle of the verb. ...

Condition (‘si’ clause) Result (main clause) present future or imperative imperfect present conditional pluperfect past conditio ...

2 Complete the following sisentences with the appropriate form of the verb. ai Ça m’arrangera si tu ____________ (pouvoir) passe ...

8 The negative Aujourd’hui, une catégorie entière de la population française – les jeunes entre 18 et 25 ans – n’a pas dedroit s ...

The negative in the text 1 NEGATION OF VERBS AND WORD ORDER aNegation with a verb is generally expressed by placing ne (which el ...

2 OTHER USAGE aNe is used on its own in a number of fixed expressions and notably to form a set of indefinite expressions, inclu ...

b With a compound tense, ne comes before the auxiliary verb and any object pronouns which precede it, whilst pas or any other of ...