Basic Form Classes in French Grammar
French · 50 practice questions
Nouns (simple/compound, singular/plural, masculine/feminine); pronouns (personal, impersonal, demonstrative, possessive, relative); verbs (reflexive and non-reflexive, their moods and tenses); adjectives (qualifying, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, numeral, ordinal); adverbs (of manner, purpose, cause and consequence, concession, place and time); prepositions (simple and compound); conjunctions (of co-ordination and subordination); articles (definite, indefinite, partitive) and their contractions (e.g. a+le = au).
- Identify what constitutes the basic structures of written French.
- Use the principles governing the structure of written French to determine acceptability, e.g. transforming one form class into another.
- Apply the structure to convey diverse messages.
Try a few questions
- Practice question 1
Identify the reflexive pronoun in: 'Elle se lève tôt.'
- A.Se
- B.Elle
- C.Tôt
- D.Lève
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A. Se
'Se' is the reflexive pronoun, showing that the subject performs the action on herself.
- Practice question 2
Which of the following is a compound preposition?
- A.À cause de
- B.Sur
- C.Dans
- D.Pour
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A. À cause de
'À cause de' (because of) is a compound preposition made up of multiple words functioning as one unit.
- Practice question 3
In the sentence 'Il pleut.', what type of pronoun is 'il'?
- A.A demonstrative pronoun
- B.A relative pronoun
- C.A possessive pronoun
- D.An impersonal pronoun
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D. An impersonal pronoun
In weather expressions such as 'Il pleut', 'il' does not refer to a person or thing; it is an impersonal pronoun.
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