ONLINE FRENCH READING COURSE.docx

Table des matières

1. INTRODUCTION
2. COGNATES
3. ENGLISH AND OLD FRENCH
4. TRUE COGNATES AND SEMI-TRUE COGNATES
5. FALSE-COGNATES
6. MILESTONE 1
7. GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS
8. VOCABULARY BUILDING 1
   1. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH ADJECTIVES
   2. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH ADVERBS
   3. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH CONJUNCTIONS
   4. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH DETERMINERS
   5. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH NOUNS
   6. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH PREPOSITIONS
   7. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH PRONOUNS
   8. THE MOST COMMON FRENCH VERBS
9. WHAT'S A VERB?
10. THE PRESENT TENSE (le présent)
11. VERBS AND DICTIONARIES
12. NOUNS
    1. THE GENDER OF NOUNS
    2. THE PLURAL OF NOUNS
    3. ARTICLES
13. ADJECTIVES
    1. GENERALITIES
    2. EXCEPTIONS
14. MILESTONE 2
15. DICTIONARY SKILLS
16. PRONOUNS
    1. Subject and object pronouns
    2. Y and EN
    3. Possessive pronouns
    4. Relative pronouns
    5. CE QUI, CE QUE & CE DONT
    6. QUE as a conjunction
17. THE PRONOMINAL VERBS
18. THE PERFECT TENSE (le passé composé)
19. THE NEGATIVE FORMS
20. THE PAST HISTORIC (le passé simple)
21. THE IMPERFECT (l'imparfait)
22. THE PLUPERFECT (le plus-que-parfait)
23. THE FUTURE (le futur)
24. THE CONDITIONAL (le conditionnel)
25. THE PRESENT and PAST SUBJUNCTIVE (le subjonctif présent et passé)
26. MILESTONE 3
27. PREPOSITIONS
28. LINKING WORDS
29. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS
30. IMPERSONAL IL
31. ON - L'ON
32. Other use of NE
33. READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
    1. TEXT 1
    2. TEXT 2
34. ONLINE RESOURCES

Possessive pronouns

In English, a possessive pronoun replaces a noun and indicates its possessor; there are 6 of them: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, and theirs. In French, there is a wider range of pronouns because the choice of possessive pronoun depends on the gender and number of the possessed object or person (NOT on the possessor).

Examples:

1. Ce n'est pas la voiture du président puisque la sienne est noire.

It is not the president's car as his is black.

2. Mes parents ne sont pas venus mais les tiens sont ici.

My parents did not come but yours are here.