French Grammar in Context

e.g. À Dieu ne plaise; Je n’ose vous le dire; Je ne sais ce qu’il est devenu; Si ce n’était trop tard, je le lui dirais c Neis a ...

f J’ai un frère et une sœur. n Avez-vous vu quelqu’un? g Avez-vous vu quelque chose? 3 Rewrite the following sentences, adding t ...

9 Interrogatives A l’Orientation, ils me demandèrent ce que je voulais faire dans la vie. Dans la vie. Est-ce que je savaisce qu ...

Interrogatives in the text 1 INTONATION The simplest way to ask a question in spoken French is by using rising intonation at the ...

2 EST-CE QUE A very frequent way of asking questions in French, particularly in spoken French, is to use ‘est-ce que’at the begi ...

Other points to note in the text Past historic: in text 1 the past historic is used as a narrative tense, e.g. demandèrent(line ...

In spoken language the following less formal constructions can be used. People Things Subject Quiest-cequiarrive? Qu’est-cequiar ...

EXERCISES 1 Complete the following questions with an appropriate interrogative word (qui, que, lequel, combien, comment, où, qua ...

4 Write questions which would result in the following answers. e.g. Je suis allée à la pharmacie < Où es-tu allée?/Où est-ce ...

10 Personal pronouns J’ai donné une mémoire excellente à des milliers de personnes quiseplaignaient de tout oublier. En fait,je ...

56 French Grammar in Context Personal pronouns in the text 1 UNSTRESSED SUBJECT PRONOUNS Usage a Vo u sis used in the text (e.g. ...

Personal pronouns 57 Form The subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, etc.) are: Singular: je, tu, il, elle, on Plural: nous, vou ...

Form The unstressed object pronouns are: person singular plural direct/indirect first me nous direct and indirect second te, vou ...

Personal pronouns 59 4 STRESSED PRONOUNS (SUBJECT AND OBJECT) Usage a The stressed pronouns are often used for emphasis (see als ...

2 UNSTRESSED OBJECT PRONOUNS Usage a Other common verbs which, like apprendre, take indirectobject pronouns where an English spe ...

Personal pronouns 61 3 WORD ORDER Position of unstressed object pronouns When the verbs faire, laisser, envoyeror verbs of perce ...

2 Without looking at the original, fill in the gaps with the appropriate pronoun. a Je____ai appris à se servir de leur mémoire. ...

Personal pronouns 63 j Ce que je reproche à la vendeusec’est de ne pas m’avoir averti de ce problème. k Elle est assise à côté d ...

d Marie and Jeanne did everything themselves. e I would like to show her this photograph and ask her what she thinks of it. f I ...

11 Relative pronouns La maison de Monsieur Ernest était une vieille baraque en planches quin’avait jamais été peinte et avait pr ...