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How to type French accents

Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 6:44 PM

GO TO:

http://french.about.com/library/bl-accents.htm

To see how to type French accents - use ALT codes in e-mails.

I like the shortcuts (the way you type with CTRL letter) in Word, but they don't work in some applications like Quia quizzes and e-mail.

before you do assignment grammar 2

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 8:39 PM

comparisons / superlatives

madame is the funniest teacher.

it should be:

mme est le prof le plus amusant
le plus describes the adj, not the noun. keep the le plus TOGETHER with the adj, whether before or after.

Tom is the tallest and the funniest=

Tom est le garcon le plus amusant. (le twice)

Tom est le plus grand garcon. (le once)

mieux vs. meilleur

mieux is an adverb!! the verb in the sentence can't be etre!

and adverbs do not agree....

Vero joue bien du trombone.

Mais Monique joue le mieux.

Elle joue mieux que Pierre.

meilleur is an adjective! the verb is etre

and adjectives do agree...

Jacqui joue bien de la clarinette. C'est une bonne musicienne.

Elle est la meilleure musicienne.

(my apologies band kids - i forget who plays what!)

past participles with e or s

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 12:30 PM

When do you put an extra -e or -s on a past participle?

1) When the helping verb is etre (Dr. Mrs. V... or a reflexive)

Isabelle est sortie.

Jacqui et Vero sont descendues

Raoul est allé

The pp agres with the subject in gender and number

2) When the direct object preceeds (goes before) the verb

J'ai acheté des pommes.

Je les ai achetées au marché.

(See apples is feminine plural and in the first sentence it comes after the verb and in the second it is les and goes before the verb.)

The pp agres with the direct object in gender and number.

Voila les photos que Luc a prises.

PRIS changes to prises because ...

... les photos is the direct object

...and it is feminine plural

...and appears before the verb

Negatives

Posted Thursday, July 6, 2006 9:04 PM

Review:

ne......

pas = not

jamais = never

plus = no more

rien = nothing

personne = no one

New:

aucun / acune = not any

Je ne vois aucun garcon

Je n'ecoute aucune cassette

ni...ni = neither ...nor

Il n'a ni billet ni piece.

Nous n'avons ni vache ni cheval.

que = only / nothing but

Justin ne parle que francais.

Lise n'a qu'un livre.

NEW little stuff - grammar lessons

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:16 PM

1. C'est vs Il est or Elle est

C'est = This is or That is

Il est or Elle est= He is or She is

But C'est often refers to a person.

The rule is C'est goes before a noun and il est before an adjective.

Paul est comique. Il est comique. C'est un ami. C'est un ami comique.

(You wouldn't say Il est un ami)

2. The plural of C'est is Ce sont

The negatives:

Ce n'est pas / Ce ne sont pas

3. Chez = at the house of, in the house of, to the house of

Je vais chez Alice. Chez qui? Chez Alice.

Tu es ou? Chez mon ami Raoul.

Je t'invite chez moi. J'organise une boum.

4 jouer a and jouer de

You joue a a sport

You joue de an instrument

Monique joue de la flute. Pierre joue du trombone.

Raoul joue au hockey et Martine joue aux echecs (chess).

5. noun de noun

Its a jazz album = C'est un album de jazz

Here is a tennis racket = Voici une raquette de tennis

She is the French teacher = Elle est prof de francais

6. pronoun voici/voila

Use the direct object pronoun before -

Here I am = Me voici.

There he is. = Le voila

There they are= Les voila

Here we are. = Nous voici

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