Homophones grammaticaux – exercices

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Exercises

Choose the correct option.

  1. La Provence une très belle région de France.[Provence is a very beautiful region of France.]|3rd person singular of the verb être → est|Check: in this context we could use était instead of est
  2. Florence demande pourquoi le train a du retard.[Florence is wondering why the train is late.]|The verb se demander is reflexive; se is the 3rd person singular reflexive pronoun
  3. Mes cousins envie d’aller à la plage.[My cousins want to go to the beach.]|3rd person plural of the verb avoir → ont|Check: in this context we could use avaient instead of ont
  4. Tu vas Paris ce week-end ?[Are you going to Paris this weekend?]|Preposition to → à|Check: à cannot be replaced by avait
  5. Georges qui a eu l’idée d’organiser cette exposition.[It was Georges' idea to organise this exhibition.]|Ce + 3rd person singular of être = c’est
  6. Les chats aiment se promener les toits.[The cats like walking on the rooftops.]|Preposition on (au dessus de) → sur|Check: even though it would have the opposite meaning, grammatically we could replace sur with sous
  7. Monique ne fait pas confiance à sens de l’orientation.[Monique doesn’t trust her sense of direction.]|Possessive determiner → son|Check: we could use mon or ton here instead of son
  8. Préférez-vous un thé un café ?[Do you prefer tea or coffee?]|Offering a choice between two options: ou|Check: we could use ou bien here instead
  9. Je ai donné rendez-vous à 16h devant la piscine.[I told them to meet me at four o’clock in front of the pool.]|Indirect object pronoun (them) without an -s → leur|Check: the sentence would still make sense if we used lui instead of leur
  10. Faites attention, montagnes sont très belles mais elles peuvent être dangereuses.[Be careful, these mountains are beautiful but they can be dangerous.]|Plural demonstrative determiner → ces
  11. J’étudierai l’archéologie, en disent mes parents.[I’m going to study archeology, whatever my parents say.]|Expression|Check: we could replace quoi'que with peu importe ce que (peu importe ce que disent mes parents)