The French Sentence Builder

Stop collecting phrases and start making your own. 25 patterns show how a French sentence is put together, with paper tiles you can see moving: who, verb, what, where, when. By the end you can say no, ask a question three ways, and put le, lui, y and en where they belong.

71 pages · 25 patterns

220 sentences, each with how to say it

Four to build yourself on every pattern, with the answers

PDF, A4 — made for a screen or tablet, and prints at home

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What's inside

All 25 patterns, in order, with the page each one opens on. Every one is a full cut-paper picture with the teaching on the facing page.

La phrase de basethe basic sentence

8 Qui fait quoi ?
who does what
10 C'est… Il y a…
it is, there is
12 Deux verbes de suite
two verbs in a row

Dire nonsaying no

16 Ne … pas
saying what isn't so
18 Pas de…
not any
20 Jamais, rien, plus, personne
never, nothing, no longer, nobody
22 Ne … pas avec deux verbes
no, with two verbs

Poser des questionsasking

26 Trois façons de demander
three ways to ask
28 Où, quand, comment, pourquoi
where, when, how, why
30 Qui ? Que ? Quoi ?
who and what
32 Quel, quelle
which, what

Décriredescribing

36 Il est grand, elle est grande
is + describing word
38 Un livre rouge
the describing word goes after
40 Un petit café
the few that go in front

Quand et oùwhen and where

44 À, dans, sur, sous, chez
place words
46 Aujourd'hui, demain, le matin
time words
48 Souvent, toujours, bien
how often, how well

Les pronoms et leur placepronouns and where they go

52 Je le vois
it and them
54 Je lui parle
to him, to her, to them
56 Il me parle
me, you, us
58 J'y vais, j'en veux
there, and some of it
60 Je ne le vois pas
pronouns with no, and with two verbs

Relier les phrasesjoining sentences

64 Et, mais, ou, donc
and, but, or, so
66 Parce que
because
68 Le chat qui dort
the one who, the one that

Inside the book

Real pages, straight from the PDF: how the book works, then one complete spread — the picture, and the facing page that teaches from it.

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