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Chapter 6: FRENCH

CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS FOR LANGUAGE: MORPHOSYNTAX

Note: Sentences marked with an asterisk (*) are not grammatical.

Feature French English Examples of Errors
Possessives De _____ ______’s (singular The car of my mom is
nouns) broken.*/ My mom’s car
______s’ (plural is broken.
nouns)
Adjectives Adjective follows Adjective precedes The test difficult starts at
noun (usually, though noun 3.*/ The difficult test
there are exceptions) starts at 3.
Regular past 5‐6 forms, One form for all She walk to the store* /
tense verb determined by subjects She walked to the store.

inflection subject
J’ai marché – I walked
Tu as marché – You
walked
Il/Elle a marché –
He/She walked
Nous avons marché –
We walked
Vous avez marché –
You (plural) walked
Ils/Elles avont marché
– They walked
Irregular past Irregular verbs do not Irregular verbs do I eat a hamburger*/I ate
tense correspond to those not correspond to a hamburger.
in English those in French
Multi‐purpose Verbs with multiple Verbs with multiple I have four years*/ I am
verbs meanings that do not meanings that do four years old.
correspond across not correspond
languages across languages Do you have hunger?*/
Are you hungry?
Present Expressed by using Add –ing to verb I read the book
progressive the present tense now.*/I’m reading the
verb tense verb form book now.
Question Questions marked by Word order What means this
formation word order inversion, inversion or addition word?*/ What does this
inflection, or of do word mean?
additions of est‐ce
que What you think?*/ What
do you think?
We can go?* / Can we
go?
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(Boudreault et al., 2007; David & Wei, 2008; Desmarais et al, 2010; Kayne, 1981; MacLeod
et al., 2014; Royle & Valois, 2010; Sylvestre et al., 2012; ; Thordardottir, 2005;
Thordardottir et al., 2010)

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