Instructions

Chapter 14 has eight 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: Yes/no questions: formation with est-ce que (write-in)

Translate the following yes/no questions into French with est-ce que at the beginning of each one. For example, Has he left? = Est-ce qu’il est parti?

Exercise 2: Yes/no questions: formation with subject–verb inversion (write-in)

Translate the following yes/no questions into French by inverting the subject pronoun and the verb and adding a subject pronoun when the subject is a noun. For example, Has he left? = Est-il parti? Has David left? = David, est-il parti?

Exercise 3: Yes/no answer forms : oui, si, non (multiple choice)

Translate the answers given in brackets in each question and select the most correct form from the options provided.

Exercise 4: Information questions: without subject or direct object (write-in)

Transform each information question from informal, spoken French by placing the question word/s at the beginning of each sentence followed by est-ce que. For example, Il pleure pourquoi? = Pourquoi est-ce qu’il pleure?

Exercise 5: Information questions: without subject or direct object (write-in)

Transform each information question from informal, spoken French into formal style by placing the question word/s at the beginning of each sentence, followed by subject–verb inversion. Remember to add a subject pronoun when the subject is a noun. For example, Il pleure pourquoi? = Pourquoi pleure-t-il? Mehdi pleure pourquoi? = Pourquoi Mehdi pleure-t-il ?

Exercise 6: Information questions: subject and direct object questions (multiple choice)

Select the most grammatically appropriate question form based on the underlined element.

Exercise 7: Questions with quel and lequel (write-in)

Complete each question by translating the words in brackets into French. Type only your translation of the missing words in the answer box. For example, Votre fils a lu (which books?) = quels livres?

Exercise 8: Indirect questions: formation (write-in)

Complete each sentence to form indirect questions. Type only the missing part of the indirect question in the answer box. For example, Est-elle enceinte? (Je ne sais pas…) = si elle est enceinte. A-t-il entendu la nouvelle? (Je ne savais pas…) = s’il avait entendu la nouvelle.