FREN 118 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sympathique, Reflexive Verb, Girdle

• School: Queen's University
• Department: French Studies
• Course: FREN 118
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The adverb of quantity beaucoup": beaucoup is an adverb used to express to an undertermined large quantity. An uncount noun is therefore left in the singular. Beaucoup d" tudiants ont manifest contre le racism. Il fault avoir beaucoup de patience avec les enfants: an adverb of quantity is an invariable word which, when modifying a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a noun, indicates an indeterminate quantity or degree. Nous ne forcerons pas trop le premier jour: adverbs which modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb go right next to these words. When they modify a noun these adverbs are always followed by the preposition de. Je vais me mettre un pew de cr me solaire. The indefinite adjective quelque : quelque is an indefinite adjective that expresses quantity; it means several or some. It is always placed before the noun and agreed in number with it: example: Cela fait quelque temps que nous ne nous sommes pas vus.