FRENCH SENTENCE BUILDER – PART 6

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FRENCH SENTENCE BUILDER – PART 6 Fais tes devoirs! Do your homework! Fais-les! Do it! Faites vos devoirs! Do your homework! Faites-les! Do it! Faisons nos devoirs! Let’s do our homework! Faisons-les! Let’s do it! Now consider the following examples of imperative clauses where the verb is in the negative form, and note that the placement of the object pronoun remains after the verb in the English clause, but it is now before the verb in the French clause: verb + object noun + ! Ne + verb + pas + object noun + ! Cherche + tes livres + ! Ne + cherche + pas + tes livres + ! AFFIRMATIVE IMPERATIVE CLAUSE NEGATIVE IMPERATIVE CLAUSE Get your books! Do not get your books! verb + object pronoun + ! Ne + object pronoun + verb + pas + ! Cherche-les! Ne + les + cherche + pas + ! AFFIRMATIVE IMPERATIVE CLAUSE NEGATIVE IMPERATIVE CLAUSE Get them! Do not get them! Consider the following pairs of negative imperative clauses and note the position of the object noun after the verb and the position of the object pronoun before the verb: Ne fais pas tes devoirs! Don’t do your homework! Ne les fais pas! Don’t do it! Ne faites pas vos devoirs! Don’t do your homework! Ne les faites pas! Don’t do it! Ne faisons pas nos devoirs! Let’s not do our homework! Ne les faisons pas! Let’s not do it! EXERCICE 12·19 Translate each command into French using the words provided in parentheses. Beware of the placement of the pronoun in the imperative clause! 1. The window? Close it! La fenêtre? ! (la / ferme) 2. Your paper? Do not throw it on the floor! Ton papier? ! (le / ne pas / jette / par terre) 3. The dog? Do not bother him! Le chien? ! (le / ne pas / embête) 4. Your friends? Call them! Tes amis? ! (les / appelle)130 French Sentence Builder Practice Makes Perfect EXERCICE 12·20 Translate the following sentences into French. Use the familiar tu form when needed.1. Where is your money? Where did you put it?2. I saw a twenty-dollar bill right here. Where is it now?3. OK. I am giving you another twenty-dollar bill. Please, do not lose it!4. Now let’s find the flowers for your grandma! Where are they?5. Yes, of course, in the vase. Give them to me, please!6. We will give them to her together. 131 Using personal pronouns·13 · Special uses of pronouns In Unit 12 we learned how object pronouns allow sentences to flow without redun- dancy. In this unit, these pronouns are presented from a different perspective. You will see that object pronouns are an essential companion to verbs that require a special structure in French and to verbs called reflexive verbs. Special verbs that require an indirect object The verb plaire is frequently used in French instead of the verb aimer to express to like. However, the sentence structure is very different in French than in English when the verb plaire is used. Consider the word order in the following French and English sentences. Note that in both languages the subject is doing the action of the verb and precedes the verb. subject + verb + complement ...