The continuation of articles on the passive voice appearing in the "Grammaire vivante" section of the periodical. The production of the passive sentence is considered under two headings: the simple verb and the complex verbal group. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This installment of the series on the passive considers the subject and the object of the verb under the following headings: part of speech, circumstantial objects and the relationship between clauses and sentences. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Four categories of statements are isolated in an attempt to analyze relationships between voice, tense and use of auxiliaries in French. The deep structure theory of generative grammar is questioned and a theory of semantic distinctions operating within the forms of a language is proposed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Contrasts usage of: (1) the imperfect and passe simple, (2) the imperfect and passe compose, and (3) the passe simple and passe compose. (RL)

Gives a grammar presentation complemented by a variety of exercises on the use of the subjunctive as opposed to the use of the indicative, on the use of the auxiliaries, on verb aspect, and on the conditional mood. (MES)

Discusses and exemplifies the author's use of transformational methods to clarify the seemingly arbitrary use of "de" and "a" to introduce the infinitive in French. (Text is in French.) (MSE)

Explains techniques used in teaching the process of nominalization to foreign students at the Universite de Paris VIII, in reaction to common usage in the press. The techniques specifically do not use a generative grammar approach but apply principles of transformation for syntactical description. (Text is in French.) (MSE)