This set covers the whole module: articles, adjective placement and agreement, subject and verb agreement, and clear pronouns. Write your answer in French before opening the solution, because the skill is writing a correct sentence, not recognising one. The questions go from easier to harder.
Keep a list of the question numbers you miss and use the routing list at the end. The module overview is in sentence foundations and agreement.
Questions
1. Indefinite articles. Complete: “Dans la cuisine, il y a ___ table et ___ chaises.”
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il y a introduces new things. Table is feminine singular and chaises is plural: une table et des chaises.
2. Contractions. Complete: “Je vais ___ supermarché et ___ boulangerie.”
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à + le contracts, and à + la does not: au supermarché et à la boulangerie.
3. After a negative. Make this sentence negative: “Nous buvons du lait.”
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After ne … pas, the partitive becomes de: Nous ne buvons pas de lait.
4. General or partitive. Fill in the gaps: “Elle adore ___ musique, alors elle écoute ___ musique tous les soirs.”
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adorer expresses a general liking, so the definite article: la musique. Écouter here means some music, so the partitive: de la musique.
Elle adore la musique, alors elle écoute de la musique tous les soirs.
5. Agreement. Write the correct form: “des sacs (noir)” and “une fille (heureux)”.
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sacs is masculine plural, so noirs. fille is feminine singular, so heureux becomes heureuse.
des sacs noirs et une fille heureuse.
6. Placement. Put the words in the right order: “une / maison / grand” and “un / film / intéressant”.
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Grand is one of the short adjectives that go before the noun, and it must be feminine: une grande maison. Intéressant follows the noun: un film intéressant.
7. Combined agreement. Rewrite correctly: “une (nouveau) voiture (rouge)”.
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Nouveau goes before the noun and becomes feminine: nouvelle. Rouge follows the noun and is already correct: une nouvelle voiture rouge.
8. Subject and verb. Complete: “Mon frère et moi (jouer) au tennis le samedi.”
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“Mon frère et moi” = nous, so jouons: Mon frère et moi jouons au tennis le samedi.
9. Distant subject. Complete: “Les enfants du voisin (être) très bruyants.”
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The subject is les enfants, not le voisin. The verb is plural: sont.
Les enfants du voisin sont très bruyants.
10. A paragraph. Correct the verbs: “Mes cousines habite à Ipoh. Elle travaille dans un hôpital.”
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Mes cousines is plural, so habitent, and the pronoun elle must also become elles with travaillent.
Mes cousines habitent à Ipoh. Elles travaillent dans un hôpital.
11. Ambiguous pronoun. Rewrite so that Nour is the one who understands: “Sara aide Nour. Elle comprend le problème.”
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Elle could be Sara or Nour. Two clear options: Sara aide Nour, qui comprend le problème. or Sara aide Nour. Nour comprend le problème.
12. Find three errors. Correct this text: “Ma petit sœur et moi adore le gâteau. Je ne mange pas des fruits.”
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- Petit describes sœur, so it is feminine and goes before the noun: petite.
- “Ma petite sœur et moi” = nous, so adorons.
- After a negative, des becomes de: pas de fruits.
Ma petite sœur et moi adorons le gâteau. Je ne mange pas de fruits.
If you got these wrong
- Questions 1 to 4: articles, contractions or the negative rule. Go back to choosing articles in a short description.
- Questions 5 to 7: adjective form or position. Revise adjective placement and agreement.
- Questions 8 to 10: the verb ending. Work through subject and verb agreement in a paragraph.
- Question 11: the pronoun could point to two people. Use repairing an ambiguous pronoun reference.
- Question 12: more than one skill at once. Try each correction separately and name the rule you used.
After this set, present-time expression builds on the same sentence habits. If you want a teacher to look at your own written French, our online one-to-one French tuition works from your sentences.