Building sentences

Expand your knowledge of French grammar and practise negation, question forms, prepositions, reported speech and conditional sentences.

 
  • Negation with "ne... pas"

    ne ... pas

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  • Questions with "est-ce que"

    Est-ce que... ?

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  • Question words

    Est-ce que vous partez en vacances ?

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  • Questions with "Quel... ?"

    quel, quelle ... quels, quelles

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  • Inverted questions

    Avez-vous... ?

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  • The verb "aller" and means of transport: "à" or "en"?

    Je vais à pied et en voiture.

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  • Verbs with prepositions: "à" and "de"

    commencer à, finir de

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  • "Il y a" and "il n'y a pas"

    Est-ce qu'il y a des aéroports à Paris ?

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  • The impersonal form "il faut"

    Il faut faire...

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  • Regular adverbs

    rapidement...

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  • Irregular adverbs

    Il mange bien...

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  • Comparatives with verbs and nouns

    Elle danse plus que son copain...

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  • Questions with "Qu'est-ce que ?" and "Qui est-ce que ?"

    Qu'est-ce qu'il regarde à la télé ? Qui est-ce qui fait le ménage ?

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  • Conditional sentences

    Here you'll learn: Si j'avais le temps, je serais plus active. - Si Marie a l'argent, elle fera un don.

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  • Reported speech

    Il a dit que...

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  • Indirect questions

    Je me demande si...

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  • Several pronouns in a sentence

    Je te l'offre...

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  • The imperative with pronouns

    Donne-la-moi ...

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