French Grammar in Context

5 Fill in the gaps in the following text (written perhaps by a Belgian journalist) with articles or with de where necessary. ___ ...

Articles and quantifiers 87 7 Fill in the gaps in the following text with articles, or with de + article, or with de alone where ...

14 Demonstratives Préparez-vous en quelques mois à une carrière très rémunératrice Vous pouvez gagner beaucoup d’argent dans les ...

Demonstratives 89 Demonstratives in the text 1 DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES Usage a The meaning of the demonstrative adjective is ‘t ...

c The neutral pronouns ceci, celaand çamay notbe used to refer to a specific noun or, indeed, to people. They can only refer to ...

Demonstratives 91 2 DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS a A demonstrative pronoun followed by deis used in French in examples like the follow ...

e _____ fleurs-ci sont très belles, mais ________ sont vraiment ravissantes. f Je préfère votre proposition à ________ de Jeanne ...

Demonstratives 93 b Ne lisez surtout pas «l’Oiseau crocodile» avant de vous endormir. Les cauchemars ne seront pas tendres. Pas ...

15 Possessives Possessives in the text 1 POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES a Possessive adjectives, as their name indicates, are used to ind ...

Possessives 95 b The possessive adjective normally occurs before each noun to which it applies, e.g. Ils perdent leur confiance ...

Other points to note in the text Negatives: rien n’est(line 1); personne ne viendra(line 2); Ni... ni(line 3); ni jamais plus ( ...

Possessives 97 2 POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS a In conjunction with indefinites such as on, chacun, personne, the possessive pronouns le/ ...

e Mes parents me laissent prendre mes propres décisions, mais ses parentssont beaucoup plus autoritaires. f Nous avons laissé no ...

Possessives 99 5 Translate the following sentences into French using the appropriate possessive adjective or pronoun. a She has ...

16 Adjectives Mes premierspas en Inde seront donc ici, à Varanasi, ville sainte (appelée aussi Bénarès), centre du monde hindoui ...

Adjectives 101 dépaysement est total, voire brutal, mais n’est-ce pas justement ce que nous espérions? Nous déambulons, hélés fr ...

Adjectives in the text 1 AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES a Most adjectives have distinctive masculine and feminine forms. All adjectives ...

Adjectives 103 Note also the masculine adjective, tranquille(line 79), which makes no change in the feminine, and contrast it wi ...

e.g. Ils ont des attitudes différentes. Note also: dernier bastion(line 7), in contrast to expressions of time viewed in relatio ...

Adjectives 105 Discover more about adjectives 1 AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES a Adjectives ending in -n, -eil, -ienand most adjectives ...