Bien dit!: Vocabulary and Grammar Workbook
Bien dit!: Vocabulary and Grammar Workbook
1st Edition
Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780547951843
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Exercise 1
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In this exercise you have to compete each of the sentences BUT by choosing the correct completion. It means that you have to match the personal pronoun (the person on the left) to the correct form of the verb ETRE as well as to the correct gender and number endings on the right side of the question.

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In this case you have Jonathan, masculine singular, on the left side. The only completion that could match the 3rd person masculine singular (without a question mark) is the letter b).

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Jonathan n’est pas gros.
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b
Exercise 2
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*Madame Toussaint, vous*… is a SHE but also the 2nd person plural. The only completion that matches the 2nd person plural feminine, is the letter c)

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Madame Toussaint, vous êtes super géniale !
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c
Exercise 3
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*Antoine et moi, nous*… (Antoine and I, we…)

We have here the 1st person plural and the only completion that matches it can be the letter e). **Nous sommes blonds.**

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Watch the adjective ending **-s**: the adjective form is masculine plural even if the genders are mixed. In French, masculine is stronger than feminine.
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e
Exercise 4
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AnaĂŻs et Lise … are THEY, the 3rd person plural feminine.

The letter a) has both the form **SONT** for the 3rd person plural of the verb and **BRUNES**, brunettes, the endings **-e** and **-s** for the feminine plural of the adjective: **BRUN**

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Exercise 5
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In this case we have a question that starts with the French phrase: *Est-ce que tu … ?* The only completion with the question mark is the letter d) which also contains the verbal form ES for the 2nd person singular: **tu es**

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Petit ou grand (small or big), are the masculine singular adjectives that tell us that **tu**, the subject of this sentence is masculine.
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d
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