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title: Plurals: les, des and silent s — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · French
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» of the French course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Plurals: les, des and silent s

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The 15 questions of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» of the French course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t1/) — Your mate goes, "Bruv, you can't even hear the s, so why bother writing it?" What's the answer? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t2/) — Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can leave it out." Can she? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t3/) — ★ Why do bateau, oiseau and jeu all end in x in the plural? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t4/) — ★ A boy says "un animal, deux animaux" and his little sister asks why it sounds different. What changed? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t5/) — Gran from Somerset reads "les souris" and goes, "Proper job, but where's the s, my lover? Should be les souriss." What is true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t6/) — A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !" What should he shout? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t7/) — ★★★ How many of these plurals are spelled right? les chevaux, les gâteaus, les nez, les jeux, les animals — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t8/) — What would happen if a French child read "les amis" with no z sound? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t9/) — ★ Kai from Auckland writes "Je n'ai pas des frères." His mate says, "Yeah nah, sounds sweet as." (yeah nah = no) Fix it. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t10/) — ★★★ Every word must agree. Which sentence is all right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t11/) — Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). What's wrong? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/e1/) — Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the rules of French orthography. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/e2/) — Ascertain the plural form corresponding to the singular noun "œil". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/e3/) — Determine the form assumed by the article des subsequent to the negative particle pas. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/e4/) — State the manner in which the final consonant of "les" is pronounced when it precedes a word commencing with a vowel. — wrong ✗ · exam

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