French Writing Exercise

Course 101, Unit 3, Lesson 1

What are people going to do?

Using both positive and negative characteristics, describe what six people are going to do and what they are doing: a woman, a man, a girl, a boy, you and me. Ex. The man is going to buy a car. The woman is not buying flowers.


Tarek's submission: Average Rating:
La femme va àcheter un pull. Elle n' àchete pas une rope .L'homme n' àchete pas un jean. Il va àcheter un pantalon.La fille va lire le livre. Elle ne écrit pas. Le garçon va manger la nourriture.Il ne écout de la musique. Je vais courir.Je ne marche pas.Vous allez boire.Vous ne mangez pas la nourriture.
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  • Geneviève-Anne
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    "La femme va Acheter un pull. Elle n'AchÈte pas une roBe. L'homme n'AchÈte pas un jean. Il va Acheter un pantalon. La fille va lire le livre. Elle N'écrit pas. Le garçon va manger la nourriture. Il N'écoutE PAS de la musique. Je vais courir. Je ne marche pas. Vous allez boire. Vous ne mangez pas la nourriture." When you have a verb that starts with a vowel or the letter "h", the "ne" becomes n' Very good work! Continue :)
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  • Judith
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    Hello, Good job. Small corrections: Remember the rule -- ne ecrit becomes n'ecrit; ne ecout becomes n'ecout. I would say "L'homme n'achete pas les jeans. Il va acheter les pantalons" because you don't just buy "a jean" or "a pant" you buy (a pair of) jeans or (a pair of) pants. Keep up the great work on your lessons! Judith
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  • Aroozzzzzzzz
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    good job!
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  • cuppachino ɐddn...
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    Judith, I agree on the contractions. However, Tarek is actually correct with "un jean" and "un pantalon". In French: the garment "jean", is referred to as a single article: un jean, deux jeans, etc. In English: jeans (as articles of garment, not materials) are said to be "always plural." We say a pair of jeans, 2 pairs of jeans. Essentially, we refer to each "tube." Contrary to popular believes, the singluar form "jean" actually exists. It means heavy, twilled cotton cloth. e.g. "She looks lovely in her jean skirt/skort." Yeah, singlular, even in skort, which indeed has 2 tubeletts (I just coined that term). That's because we're referring to the fabric here. When I learnt English 30 years ago, I had to aquire the "weird" concept of pants come in "pairs" and now I have to relearn that French is like Chinese where trouses go. Of course, hair is plural in French but singular (uncountable) in English! As you can see, there's no International Pluralness Committee! :) Confusing? Wait til you read about floors... and then billions... http://eyeful-tower.com/muse/what-floor.htm (copy/paste the URL)
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  • cuppachino ɐddn...
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    oops: trousers I generally never bother to x my Ts and dot my Is in comments, but in this case, I thought I'd better not add to the confusion, seeing that we don't generally say trousers. BTW, the word "pants" is virtually unheard of in Hong Kong.
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  • Geneviève-Anne
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    Merci Cuppachino pour l'information supplémentaire... :)
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