Posted by Sydney on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 8:00pm.
Were you not to keep the verb, for a complete sentence, like the model?
If you are working on Geographical Expressions with cities, continents, provines, countries, I'd be glad to give you Prepositions With Place Names. You but to ask!
Sra (aka Mme)
Oh woops. Sorry I totally forgot about that. Okay will redo right away. My whole attention was on the masculine/feminine countries. Sorry.
1. Mlle Martinelli/Rome
Mlle Martinelli travaille à Rome, en Italie.
2. M. Carlson/Atlanta
M. Carlson travaille à Atlanta, aux États-Unis.
3. Mme Osaki/Tokyo
Mme Osaki travaille à Tokyo, au Japon.
4. M. Clark/Toronto
M. Clark travaille à Toronto, au Canada.
5. M. Boigny/Abidjan
M. Boigny travaille à Abidjan ????
6. Mlle Tissot/Genève
Mlle Tissot travaille à Genève en Suisse.
7. M. Diouf/Dakar
M. Diouf travaille à Dakar au Sénégal.
8. Mme Aknouch/Rabat
Mme Aknouch travaille à Rabat au Royaume du Maroc.
Yeah could you please give me Prepositions with place names? And whatever I have done..is it all good now?
#5 Abidjan is the capital and largest city of la Côte d'Ivoire .
Because I have typed all this in a larger font, when I cut and paste, the nice columns will no doubt go awry. Whatever is not clear, please post questions.
FRENCH: GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSIONS
The definite article is used with names of countries, continents, provinces, mountains, and bodies of water, but NOT with names of cities.
PREPOSITIONS WITH PLACE NAMES:
To express “to” or “in” with place names:
en feminine countries en Suisse
continents en Amérique
provinces en Bourgogne
au,aux masculine countries au Mexique
aux États-Unis
dans + modified countries dans la belle France
definite continents dans l’Amérique du article Sud
à cities à Bruxelles
To express “from” with place names:
de feminine countries de Suisse
continents d’Amérique
provinces de Bourgogne
de + masculine countries du Méxique
def. art. modified countries de la belle France
continents de l’Amérique du Sud
de cities de Bruxelles
NOTE: 1. With masculine countries, the definite article is always used.
2. A few cities always have a definite article in French, since the article is part of the name.
to, in
from: le Havre = au Havre / du Havre
la Nouvelle-Orléans = à la Nouvelle-Orléans / de la Nouvelle-Orléans
FEMININE COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS, PROVINCES:
l’Algérie, Algeria l’Espagne, Spain
l’Allemagne, Germany la France, France
l’Angleterre, England la Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain
l’Argentine, Argentina la Grèce, Greece
l’Autriche, Austria la Hongrie, Hungary
la Belgique, Belgium l’Inde, India
la Chine, China l’Irlande, Ireland
l’Écosse, Scotland l’Italie, Italy
la Norvège, Norway la Suède, Sweden
la Pologne, Poland la Suisse, Switzerland
la Roumanie, Rumania la Tunisie, Tunisia
la Russie, Russia la Turquie, Turkey
l’Afrique, Africa l’Alsace, Alsace
l’Amérique, America la Bourgogne, Burgundy
l’Amérique du Nord, la Bretagne, Brittany
North America
l’Amérique du Sud, la Champagne, Champagne
South America la Corse, Corsica
l’Asie, Asia la Flandre, Flanders
l’Australie, Australia la Lorraine, Lorraine
l’Europe, Europe la Normandie, Normandy
la Provence, Provence
MASCULINE COUNTRIES:
le Brésil, Brazil le Maroc, Morocco
le Canada, Canada le Méxique, Mexico
le Chili, Chile le Pakistan, Pakistan
le Danemark, Denmark les Pays-Bas, the Netherlands
les États-Unis, the le Pérou, Peru
United States le Portugal, Portugal
le Japon, Japan
MOUNTAINS AND WATERWAYS:
les Alpes (f.), the Alps la Loire, the Loire
le Jura, the Jura le Rhin, the Rhine
Mountains le Rhône, the Rhone
les Pyrénées (f.), the la Seine, the Seine
Pyrenees la Manche, the English
les Vosges (f.) the Channel
Vosges Mountains la mer Méditerranée, the
le mont Blanc, Mount Mediterranean Sea
Blanc
la Garonne, the Garonne
River
Hopefully you can read the hodge-podge!
Sra (aka Mme)
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