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Garantir un anglais plus authentique
Par Annie Booth,
formatrice en anglais pour francophones,
TECHNOLOGIAFormer. Performer. Transformer. www.technologia.com

▪ Common sentence structure
mistakes
▪ Overuse of the comma
▪ Choice of words

Why does your English
sound like French?

French and English are both
SVO (SUBJECT – VERB – OBJECT) languages

Word order rules

Un noir chat?
OR
Un chat noir?

1. John and Greg meet at 9:00 every Friday to discuss
new marketing strategies.
Find the mistake
2. Principal Smith walks through the hallways impatiently
to make sure no one is late.

ROYAL ORDER OF ADVERBS
VERB MANNER PLACE FREQUENCY TIME PURPOSE
Annie
teaches
English
enthusiastically online every Friday at 6:00 p.m. to help people
improve their
skills.
Our boss
walks
impatiently through the
production
room
every morning at 8:00 a.m.
sharp
to make sure
no one is late.

Comma, comma, comma

Ahhhh…. une virgule !
A comma! What is this
doing here???

Rules – a few examples
Between the day and year
September 5, 2019
Separating items in a list
I bought eggs, milk and sugar.

Emphasis - a few examples
Sentence inversions with subordinating conjunctions
Unless you show your I.D., you will not be admitted.
Adverb at the beginning of a sentence (ROYAL ORDER OF ADVERBS)
Every morning at 9:00, we accept calls for emergency appointments.

Word choice

If it looks like French, it sounds
like French
Faux amis
actually – actuellement
assist – assister
comprehensive – compréhensif
deceive – décevoir
Semi faux amis
important
intéressant

If it looks like French, it sounds
like French
Formal
Words of Latin origin are considered more formal in English.
verify
require
locate
What would you use instead of these verbs?

▪ Fautes courantes chez les francophones – Volet I
▪ Fautes courantes chez les francophones – Volet II
English training courses at Technologia

Thank you, and remember…