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Spot the mistake

Tap the wrong word in each sentence and see the correction.

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Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2

Spot the mistake: de after a negative

Je n'ai pas des frères, il ne boit pas du café: tap the article that should become de after a negative in eight sentences, and learn the one exception with être.

DELF, DALF & examsSpot the mistakeB1
Spot the mistake: false friends in a French CV and cover letter
Reading & writingSpot the mistakeB1
Spot the mistake: register slips in a formal French email
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA1
Spot the mistake: à le, de le and missing elisions

Verbs & tensesSpot the mistakeB1

Spot the mistake: imparfait or passé composé?

Quand j'ai été petit? Le téléphone sonnait soudain? Tap the verb in the wrong past tense in eight sentences and learn background versus event.

Pronunciation & listeningSpot the mistakeA2

Spot the mistake: accents that change the meaning

ou or où, a or à, sur or sûr, du or dû, la or là: tap the word with the wrong (or missing) accent in eight sentences where the accent changes everything.

Verbs & tensesSpot the mistakeB1
Spot the mistake: indicative where the subjunctive belongs
Il faut que tu viens? Bien qu'il fait froid? Tap the verb in the wrong mood in eight sentences, including one where the subjunctive is the mistake.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: son, sa, ses and leur
Marc a perdu son clé? Elle aime son mère? Tap the wrong possessive in eight sentences: in French it agrees with the thing owned, not the owner.
Verbs & tensesSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: avoir or être in the passé composé
J'ai allé, elle a venue, nous avons resté: tap the wrong auxiliary in eight passé composé sentences, then review the être verbs and agreement.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: word order in French negatives
Je pas ai mangé, il n'a mangé pas, nous n'avons pas rien vu: tap the misplaced words in eight negative sentences and learn where ne… pas goes.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA1
Spot the mistake: avoir or être in everyday expressions
J'ai faim, not je suis faim. Tap the wrong word in eight sentences where English speakers use être instead of avoir, then learn the full list.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: du, de la, des or le, la, les?
J'aime du chocolat? Je voudrais le pain? Tap the wrong article in eight sentences and learn when French says some (du) and when it says the (le).
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: depuis, pendant or il y a?
J'habite ici pendant trois ans? Je l'ai vu depuis une semaine? Tap the wrong time word in eight sentences: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: en, à or dans with transport
En pied, à voiture, sur le train: tap the wrong preposition in eight transport sentences, and learn en voiture, à pied and dans le bus.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: adjective agreement in a short review
Une chambre propre, des serveurs gentils, la vue magnifique: tap the adjective that doesn't agree in eight sentences from a hotel review, then fix it.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA2
Spot the mistake: à, en or au with cities and countries
Je vais en Paris? Au France? Tap the wrong preposition in eight travel sentences, then master à, en, au and aux with places for good.
Grammar & usageSpot the mistakeA1
A flat with two desks: spot the French location error
Correct eight French location words using an explicit two-desk layout. Distinguish on, under and inside, with a written key for every object.