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The Port-Royal Grammar (originally Grammaire générale et raisonnée contenant les fondemens de l'art de parler, expliqués d'une manière claire et naturelle, "General and Rational Grammar, containing the fundamentals of the art of speaking, explained in a clear and natural manner") was a milestone in the analysis and philosophy of language.
French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages . French is a moderately inflected language.
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, and often used by modern interviewers. [1]Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album—a form of parlor game popular among Victorians. [2]
Greek words are used when describing foods, oils, perfumes, etc. This is similar to the use of French terms in the English language such as garçon or rendezvous. These words give the language a French flair just as Greek did to the Latin-speaking Romans. Slaves or characters of low standing speak much of the Greek.
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from πρό pró, "before" and λόγος lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.
2. Literary analysis of a text in contemporary French from the texts in the program (texts after 1500), followed by a grammar presentation on the text and by an interview. 2h30: 1h00 expl. & gram. : 0h45 entretien : 0h15: 9 3. Literary analysis of a text in Medieval French from the texts in the program (texts before 1500), followed by an ...
the French language was imposed as the official language of the Kingdom of France in place of Latin and other Oïl and Occitan languages; the literary development of French prepared the vocabulary and grammar for the Classical French (le français classique) spoken in the 17th and 18th centuries.
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...