Sunday, April 14, 2013

Level 2 FRENCH question on intonation, Est-ce que, and Inversion. (In description)Traduisez le question avec la forme donnee. 1. How does one speak...

TRADUIRE:  How does one speak
French?  


Without inversion
Comment est-ce qu'on parle
francais?


With
inversion
Comment parle-t-on
francais?


There is another way which is probably
not in the textbook which you are using, but in conversational French and only in
certain areas, people will sometimes place the interrogative word at the end of the
question. Like this:


On parle francais
comment?


Then, of course, in much conversational
French, people simply raise their voices, changing the normal intonation, at the end of
the question without using either the est-ce que [question form] or
the inversion, as we sometimes do in English.  So, what would be a declarative statement
then changes to a question by means of intonation
only.


e.g.  Comment on parle francais?  [the voice rises,
rather than falls, on the last word,
francais]

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