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AS grammar
Nouns Gender, Singular and plural forms Articles Definite, indefinite and partitive Adjectives Agreement, Position, Comparative and superlative, Use of adjectives as nouns (eg le vieux, les Anglais) Demonstrative (ce, cet, cette, ces) Indefinite (including autre, chaque, même, quelque) Possessive (mon, ma, mes, etc) Interrogative and exclamatory (quel, quelle, quels, quelles) Numerals Cardinal (eg un, deux), Ordinal (eg premier, deuxième) Expression of time and date Adverbs Formation of adverbs ending in -ment, Comparative and superlative Interrogative (including combien (de), comment, où, pourquoi, quand) Quantifiers/intensifiers assez, beaucoup, moins, plus, la plupart, plusieurs, presque, tant, très, trop... Pronouns Personal: subject (including on); Object: direct and indirect Disjunctive/emphatic personal, as subject and object: moi/moi-même, etc Reflexive Relative (including qui, que, dont, lequel etc, auquel etc, ce qui, ce que) Demonstrative (celui, celle, ceux, celles; and celui-ci/celui-là etc) Indefinite (including quelqu’un, quelque chose) Possessive (le mien etc) Interrogative (including qui, que, quoi) Use of y, en |
Verbs Conjugation of regular -er, -ir, -re verbs, modal verbs, principal irregular verbs, including reflexive verbs ; Agreement of verb and subject Uses of il y a Modes of address (tu / vous) Impersonal verbs Constructions with verbs Verbs followed by an infinitive (with or without a preposition) Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) (R) Perfect infinitive Negative forms Interrogative forms Use of tenses: Present; Perfect; Imperfect; Future; Conditional; Future Perfect; Conditional Perfect; Pluperfect; Past Historic (R) Verbal paraphrases and their uses (including aller + infinitive, venir de + infinitive) Passive voice Subjunctive mood: present (common uses, for example, after expressions of possibility, necessity, obligation and after conjunctions such as bien que Use of the infinitive, present participle (eg en arrivant) and past participle Prepositions Simple (eg sous) and complex (eg au-delà de) Conjunctions Coordinating conjunctions (eg et, ou, mais) Subordinating conjunctions Negation Use of negative particles (eg ne...pas, ne...personne, ne...que) Use of ne with negative subjects (eg Personne n’est venu) Questions Commands Word order : Inversion after speech Other constructions Time expressions with depuis and il y a ; Comparative constructions Indirect speech Discourse markers eg au contraire, en fait Fillers eg alors, bon A-level grammar In addition to the vocabulary listed in the AS grammar list, students of A-level will also be expected to study the following: Verbs : Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) ; Passive voice: all tenses ; Subjunctive mood (perfect tense , imperfect tense (R)) Word order : Inversion after adverbs |