Starter quiz
- Match the French and English vocabulary.
- l'abri⇔shelter, refuge ✓
- l'arrêt⇔stop ✓
- la mort⇔death ✓
- mentir⇔to lie, lying ✓
- renvoyer⇔to send back, sending back ✓
- bénévole⇔volunteer ✓
- Which type of pronoun replaces the receiver of the action of a verb?
- direct object pronoun ✓
- indirect object pronoun
- subject pronoun
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- Where in a French sentence would a direct object pronoun be positioned?
- After the verb.
- At the start of the sentence.
- At the end of the sentence.
- Before the complement.
- Before the verb. ✓
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- Which words are direct object pronouns meaning 'it'?
- les
- le ✓
- se
- la ✓
- l' ✓
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- Where does the direct object pronoun go in a perfect tense sentence?
- before the past participle
- before the auxiliary verb ✓
- after the past participle
- after the auxiliary verb
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- Put the words in order to make the sentence 'Pierre met me at the airport'.
- 1⇔Pierre
- 2⇔m'
- 3⇔a
- 4⇔rencontré
- 5⇔à
- 6⇔l'
- 7⇔aéroport
Exit quiz
- Which sentences contain Silent Final Consonant(s)?
- Je vous donne votre livre. ✓
- Je te donne ton livre.
- Il nous prépare le déjeuner. ✓
- Nous les regardent de loin. ✓
- Elle m'écoute bien.
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- Which sentences contain examples of liaison?
- Je t'ai regardé dans la salle de classe.
- Nous vous avons menti. ✓
- Ils nous ont invités à la soirée. ✓
- Mes amis m'ont montré la bonne route. ✓
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- The indirect object pronoun goes before the ______ in a perfect tense sentence.
- 'auxiliary verb' ✓
- Which word is missing from this sentence? 'Je ______ ai répondu en français.' I replied to her in French.
- 'lui' ✓
- Which is the missing word in this sentence? 'Je ______ ai demandé si elle était à l'école.' I asked her if she was at school.
- 'lui' ✓
- Put the words in order to make the sentence 'I allowed you (all) to speak'.
- 1⇔je
- 2⇔vous
- 3⇔ai
- 4⇔permi
- 5⇔de
- 6⇔parler
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Key learning points
- Indirect object pronouns met are: me, te, lui, and vous. They replace the indirect receiver of the action of the verb.
- When somebody or something receives the action of a verb indirectly, we use me to mean ‘to me’ and te to mean ‘to you’.
- When somebody or something receives the action of a verb indirectly, we use lui to mean ‘to him’ or ‘to her’.
- An [-s] which is normally an SFC will be pronounced when followed by a vowel. This is called liaison.
Common misconception
Silent final consonants are always silent.
The liaison rule means that Silent Final Consonants are pronounced when the next word starts with a vowel sound (including silent h).
Keywords
Object pronoun - a pronoun that replaces the object in a sentence
Silent final consonant (sfc) - silent letter (d, s, t, x) at the end of a word
Liaison - the linking of a normally silent final consonant to the beginning of the next word when it starts with a vowel sound
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