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Chapter 11: The Subjunctive, Modals, Exclamatives and the Imperative


Instructions

Chapter 11 has six sets of exercises, with corresponding instructions for each exercise below. 

Answers must use the appropriate capitalization/case, punctuation, and accents to be considered correct. Answers must be typed in lower case (except for initial capital letters a sentence) and use a full stop at the end of a sentence. Other examples of correct punctuation include putting a space before exclamation marks / question marks / semi-colons / colons in French; using French guillemets; putting titles (including film titles) in italics, and so on.

Exercise 1: Uses of the subjunctive: clauses dependent on a subject’s attitude to an event and verbs of saying, thinking and believing (write-in)

Complete each sentence by conjugating the infinitive in brackets in the correct tense and mood. The subjunctive is not required in all cases. Type only the verb in the answer box.

Exercise 2: Uses of the subjunctive: clauses dependent on impersonal verbs and subordinating conjunctions (write-in)

Complete each sentence by conjugating the infinitive in brackets in the correct tense and mood. The subjunctive is not required in all cases. Type only the verb in the answer box.

Exercise 3: Other uses of the subjunctive (write-in)

Complete each sentence by conjugating the infinitive in brackets in the correct tense and mood. The subjunctive is not required in all cases. Type only the verb in the answer box.

Exercise 4: Modal verbs: use of ‘devoir’, ‘pouvoir’, ‘savoir’ and ‘falloir’ (multiple choice)

Select the correct answer to fill in the blanks by translating the English verbs in brackets into the appropriate form with one of the following: devoirpouvoirsavoir, falloir.

Exercise 5: Exclamatives: use and formation (write-in)

Translate the following exclamations into French using the prompts in brackets. For example, How cold it is here! (que) = Qu’il fait froid ici!

Exercise 6: The imperative (write-in)

Change the orders and wishes into the imperative form. Type only the verb and the subject in each case in the answer box. NB: All the verbs are in the subjunctive! For example, Je veux que tu te lèves tout de suite = Lève-toi !

Characters

Some write-in answers may require you to include the following characters:

To type these characters in the answer box, you may copy and paste from these instructions. (Select the character and copy using Ctrl+C and paste using Ctrl+V.)