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Homophones
- confusion between :
- "ce livre" (demonstrative adjective : this book)
- "se marier" (personal pronoun used as the object complement of a verb, get married)
- confusion between maire (mayor), mer (sea) and mère (mother)
- confusion between :
- haut (high),
- eau (water),
- au début (at the begining),
- les os (bones)
- Ô combien (particle used to invoke, apostrophy and indicate the elation of a feeling).
- confusion between seau (bucket), saut (jump), sot (dumb), and sceau (seal)
- confusion between ça (this) and sa (her)
- confusion between :
- c'est beau (it's nice),
- il s'est habitué (he has been used to it),
- ces livres (these books) : attention : "ces" se prononcent [cé] et non [cè]
- je sais (I know),
- elle sait (she knows)
English influence
Do not write:
- companie but compagnie
- connection but connexion
- correspondence but correspondance
- dance but danse
- default but défaut
- example but exemple
- language but langage
- license but licence
- exercise but exercice
1 consonant instead of 2
Do not write:
- apartement but appartement
- apartenir but appartenir (to belong)
- corolaire but corollaire
- envelope but enveloppe
2 consonants instead of 1
Do not write:
- ballade (a kind of song, as in English) but balade (a walk)
- abbréviation but abréviation
- addresse but adresse
- aggrégation but agrégation
- aggression but agression
- ammener but amener
- appercevoir but apercevoir
- courrir but courir
- baggage but bagage
- gallerie but galerie
- giraffe but girafe
- marriage but mariage
- traffic but trafic
"-é" instead of "-er"
Do not write:
- "Il faut aller mangé" but "Il faut aller manger"
Rule : When two verbs follow each other, the second takes "ER" ( plus généralement l'infintif ex : je vais aller courir )
"-er" instead or "-é"
Do not write:
- "J'ai manger" but "J'ai mangé"
No final "-e"
Do not write:
- "Util" but "Utile" (useful)
Sources
- French version: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faute_d%27orthographe
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