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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
NB: some questions may have more than one ‘correct’ answer
1. Which of these is correct?
(A mass/prayer for the dead)
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une messe …………. du défunt
a. à l’intention de
b. à l’attention de
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| 2. Which is incorrect? |
a. des robes oranges
b. des robes bleues
c. des couvertures bleu ciel
d. l’encre bleu noir |
3. Which of these require(s)
a circumflex accent? |
a. roder (meaning to run in (a car etc.))
b. roder (meaning to prowl, loiter, lurk…)
c. pecher (meaning to fish)
d. pecher (meaning to sin) |
4. Which of the following
plural(s) need correcting? |
a. des bails commerciaux (commercial leases)
b. les landaus bancals (wobbly prams)
c. émails (meaning enamels)
d. e-mails (meaning e-mails)
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5. Which of these homophone(s)
need correcting? |
a. nul n’est censé ignorer la loi
b. ce qu’il dit n’est pas sensé
c. la chasse à courre (hunting with hounds)
d. pris de court (caught unawares)
e. à court d’argent (short of money)
f. au cours de (in the course of) |
| 6. Correct the words in bold |
a. Le cambrioleur s’est introduit par infraction
(broke in)
b. Le feu a tout consommé
c. Elle parle d’une voix tenue (thin voice)
d. il mène nue vie complètement dissoute |
1: a. b is “for the attention of” in a letter/memo; 2: a (nouns used as adjectives of colour are invariable)
and d (hyphenated when both adjectives are colours); 3: b and c, and d takes an é; 4: a (baux) and c
(émaux); 5: none; 6: a – effraction, b – consumé, c – ténue, d – dissolue.
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