Exercices+de+l'Université+de+Texas

[|introduction] [|formation and placement] [|placement of adverbs with the passé composé] [|comparative and superlative of adverbs] [|il y a 'ago'] [|bon/meilleur vs. bien/mieux] [|tôt, tard, en avance, en retard, à l'heure] **ADJECTIVES ** [|introduction] [|formation and placement] [|adjectives before the noun] [|irregular adjectives] [|adjectives whose meaning varies with placement] [|comparison of adjectives] [|superlative of adjectives] [|bon/meilleur (adjectives) vs. bien/mieux (adverbs)] [|participles as adjectives] **CONDITIONAL MOOD ** [|conditional] [|past conditional] [|si clauses – summary] [|reported speech in present] [|reported speech in past] [|active voice vs. passive voice] **CONJUNCTIONS ** [|introduction] [|coordinating conjunctions] : **et, mais, ou, puis, car,** [|subordinating conjunctions] : **pendant que,** **quand, depuis que, **  etc. [|conjunctions that take the subjunctive] **DETERMINERS ** [|introduction] [|definite articles] [|def. articles with physical characteristics] , ex. **elle a les cheveux longs** [|indefinite articles] [|partitive articles] [|possessive determiners] : **mon, ma, mes**, etc. [|demonstrative determiners] : **ce, cet, cette, ces** [|expressions of quantity] : **beaucoup de, un peu de** [|tout] [|indefinite determiners] **FUTURE TENSES ** [|futur proche]  (aller+infinitive) [|simple future (regular)] [|simple future (irregular)] [|future: usage] [|futur antérieur] [|**imperative mood**](regular and pronominal) **INTERROGATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS ** [|introduction] [|yes/no questions] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **est-ce que, n'est-ce pas** [|questions with subject/verb inversion] [|interrogative adjective quel] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (with exclamative usage) [|interrogative pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **qui, qui est-ce que,** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**qu'est-** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ce qui, qu'est-ce que ** [|interrogative pronoun lequel] [|interrogative words] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">NEGATION ** [|introduction] [|basic negation] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: ne ... pas (don't, not) [|alternate forms (1)] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... jamais ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (never) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... rien ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (nothing) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... personne ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(nobody, no one) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... pas du tout ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (not at all) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... plus ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (no more, any longer) [|alternate forms (2)] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... aucun(e) ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (not one) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... ni ... ni ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(neither ... nor) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ne ... que ** <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (only) [|one word negative responses] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **si, jamais, personne, rien** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">NOUNS ** [|introduction] [|number] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: singular and plural [|gender] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: masculine and feminine [|voilà vs. il y a] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: devices for introducing nouns [|temps, heure, fois] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: different nouns for 'time' || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">PAST TENSES ** [|passé immédiat] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (venir de+infinitive) [|passé composé with avoir] [|passé composé with être] [|passé composé of pronominal verbs] [|imparfait: formation] [|imparfait: states of being, habitual actions] [|imparfait: idiomatic uses] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (suggestions, wishes, depuis, venir de) [|narration: passé composé vs. imparfait] [|plus-que-parfait] [|passé simple] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (literary tense) [|passé antérieur] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (literary tense) **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">PREPOSITIONS ** [|introduction] [|common prepositions] [|contractions of **à** and **de** with definite article] [|**depuis**] [| vs **il y a ... que**] [|**depuis**] [| with imperfect] [|**depuis, pendant, pour**] [|prepositions with place names] [|prepositions with infinitives] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">PRESENT TENSE ** [|introduction] [|**present tense**] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">PRONOUNS ** [|introduction] [|subject pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, elles ** [|c'est vs. il/elle est] [|disjunctive pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, elles, eux** [|direct object pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **me, te, le, la, nous, vous, les** [|indirect object pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **me, te, lui, nous, vous, leur** [|pronoun:] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> **y** [|pronoun:] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> **en** [|relative pronouns:] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> **qui** and **que** [|relative pronouns:] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> **ce qui** and **ce que** [|relative pronouns:] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> **dont, ce dont, où, lequel** [|order of object pronouns] [|indefinite pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **chacun and quelqu'un** [|demonstrative pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **celui, celle, ceux, celles** [|possessive pronouns] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **le mien, la mienne,** etc. **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD ** [|regular subjunctive formation] [|irregular subjunctive formation] [|usage: obligation] [|usage: doubt] [|usage: will, emotion, desire] [|conjunctions that take the subjunctive] [|past subjunctive] [|summary] [|ways to avoid the subjunctive] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">VERBS ** [|introduction] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">regular verbs ** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-er verbs ** [|-er verbs (regular)] [|-er verbs (stem changing)] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-ir verbs ** [|-ir verbs (regular)] [|-ir verbs (irreg) like ouvrir] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to open' [|-ir verbs (irreg) like partir] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to leave,' **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-re verbs ** [|-re verbs (regular)] [|-re verbs (irregular) like prendre] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to take' [|-re verbs (irregular) like mettre] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to put, to place' [|-re verbs (irregular) like suivre] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to follow', vivre 'to live' **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">common irregular verbs ** [|être] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to be' [|avoir] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to have' [|avoir expressions] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">, ex. **il y a, avoir besoin de** [|aller] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to go' [|faire] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to do,' 'to make' [|faire expressions] [|venir] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 'to come' [|boire, croire, voir] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: 'to drink', 'to believe', 'to see' [|savoir vs. connaître] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: two ways of knowing [|dire, lire, écrire] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: 'to say', 'to read', 'to write [|pronominal verbs] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: **se raser, se lever, se disputer** [|modal verbs] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: vouloir 'to want to,' pouvoir 'to be able to,' devoir 'to have to' [|impersonal verbs and expressions] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: il faut, il est important de ... [|quitter, partir, sortir, laisser] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: different verbs for 'to leave' [|infinitive constructions, including past and negative] [|causative faire] <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> (faire+infinitif) [|transitive vs. intransitive constructions] [|present participle] ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ADVERBS **