French Conversation and Composition · Chapter 143Grammar Review.--Lesson XIX
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Interrogatives.--Relative que in emphatic inversions.--Penser à; penser de. Jouer à; jouer de. Savoir; connaître.
Examples
A. 1. Who sent you that letter? 2. Which of the letters did you mail? 3. Do you know to whom it was addressed? 4. Whose valet is he? 5. What did you find on the desk? 6. What was[1] it that the carter said to the culprit? 7. Did he know who had forged the signature? 8. What[2] was the patient's occupation? 9. What! He is gone? I don't know what to think of[3] it.[3] 10. Who is playing cards in that room? 11. I don't know what[4] I was thinking of.[5] 12. Whose[6] is this violin? 13. It is mine, what are you going to do with[3] it?[3] 14. Whom do you wish to see?--M. Blanc.--Which one,[7] the father or the son? 15. It is a difficult thing[8] to learn to write well. 16. Does she know how[7] to play the piano? 17. Don't you know what a forger is?[9] 18. I have no[10] use for[11] your advice. 19. "Oh ! A[12] fine thing it[7] is[7] to[8] know something!" says M. Jourdain in the «Bourgeois Gentilhomme» of Molière. 20. Did the doctor know what instrument he played? 21. The king did not know which country to attack first.[13] 22. Do you see that object? What is it? 23. If I knew him well, I would invite him.
[Footnotes 1: present. 2: adjective. 3: en. 4: quoi. 5: à; what order? 6: possession. 7: omit. 8: emphatic inversion; supply que. 9: "what it is that a forger." 10: omit pas. 11: que faire de. 12: definite article. 13: supply definite article.]
B. Make a list of interrogative words (adverbs, etc.) not included in examples above and illustrate their use in questions and exclamations.