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6. Turn this sentence into a negative sentence with the negation “ne … que”.
J’ai mangé un croissant.
I ate a croissant.
I ordered it.
2. Tu ce bruit ?
Did you hear this noise?
a. entendais
b. entends
c. as entendu
6. Et si on se ce soir ?
What about we meet tonight?
a. voit
b. voyait
c. verra
Note: The translation of the sentences is in the solutions to avoid translating instead of listening.
Explanation: French requires an article in front of nouns for things that you can’t touch,
in contrast to English.
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Explanation: When pas is followed by an indefinite article “un – une – des” or a partitive article
“du – de la – de l’ – des”, any of these articles become de.
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3. Il est chanteur.
He is a singer.
b. /
Explanation: When talking about jobs with il est, we don’t add an article between il est and
the occupation.
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Explanation: The negation “ne .. que” is made of 2 words and always goes around the conjugated verb.
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Explanation: Before a masculine noun and after aller, always use au.
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Explanation: To think about translates to “Penser à”, because of this, the question starts with à.
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Explanation: The adjectives placed before the noun usually express Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness,
and Size. Remember it with the acronym BANGS. Mauvais – Mauvaise is part of Goodness.
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Explanation: Une glace is a direct object pronoun. A direct object can be replaced by a Direct Object
Pronoun (DOP). The DOP is always placed before the verb in French. The past participle of the verb agrees
in gender and number with the pronoun.
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The adjectives placed before the noun usually express Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, and Size.
Remember it with the acronym BANGS.
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2. Tu as entendu ce bruit ?
Did you hear this noise?
c. as entendu
Explanation: Because it’s a one-time event in the past, we will use the passé composé.
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Explanation: The imparfait is used to mention ongoing or repeated actions in the past.
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7. Je viens de partir.
I just left.
a. viens de partir
Explanation: “Just” in French translates to the passé récent, which is made of venir conjugated in the
present tense + de followed by the infinitive of the verb.
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Explanation: The near future – futur proche (To be going to) is built with the verb aller conjugated in
the present tense followed by the infinitive of the verb.
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