Practice Makes Perfect

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EXERCICE

You are among friends and make suggestions for weekend activities. Translate the following 

suggestions into French.

1.  Let’s eat at the restaurant!    

2.  Let’s invite Jeanine!    

3.  Let’s check the movie times!    

4.  Let’s go!    

5.  Let’s take a cab!    

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Any structural group organized around a verbal nucleus is a clause. There are two 

types of clauses in English and in French: independent clauses and dependent 

clauses. If a clause can stand alone as a sentence—if it has at least a subject and a 

verb and expresses a complete thought—then it is an independent clause. In this 

chapter, we will see examples of independent clauses that exist by and for them-

selves (simple independent clauses) as well as independent clauses that give sup-

port to dependent clauses.