Révision des pièges d'examen II : dix pièges de plus
P47.orthography-and-agreement.08 · Audience: guest, language-pro, it-ml
Unité GR-38 · campagne 19 · la seconde tournée — dont plusieurs pièges que même les natifs ratent.
Second and final trap review before the exam. This tier is subtler: several of these are hypercorrections — errors made while trying to sound learned — which makes spotting them in your own prose all the more satisfying. Ten traps, ten tests:
| Piège | Test de deux secondes |
|---|---|
| vingt / cent au pluriel | -s when multiplied and final: quatre-vingts euros, deux cents euros; no -s when another numeral follows: quatre-vingt-trois, deux cent dix |
| demi / mi- | invariable + hyphen before the noun: une demi-heure, à mi-chemin; gender-only agreement after it: deux heures et demie |
| tel que | followed by que, agrees with what precedes: des nuisances telles que le bruit; alone, with what follows: tel un mur |
| second / deuxième | careful usage keeps second for a series of two: la Seconde Guerre mondiale |
| pallier | transitive direct: pallier le manque — «pallier à» is the classic hypercorrection |
| malgré que | banned in formal writing: malgré + noun, or bien que + subjonctif |
| soi-disant | invariable, and properly of persons claiming something of themselves: ces soi-disant experts |
| se rappeler / se souvenir | se rappeler quelque chose (direct), se souvenir de quelque chose |
| y compris | invariable before the noun: y compris les taxes |
| ci-joint | invariable at the head of the sentence or before the noun: ci-joint la facture; agrees after it: la facture ci-jointe |
The letter-writing yield is again deliberate: ci-joint la facture, y compris les frais de port, quatre-vingts euros — every réclamation you have written this course walked past three of these traps. The practice drills the numeral rule, demi, tel que and pallier; the rest ride along in the table and the vocabulary. Fold both trap tables into your final relecture routine: they are the last two passes your copy takes before the jour J.
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