Talk:French For Football/Grammar

Generally understood terms
These are thought to be generally understood:
 * noun     (the name of a person, place or thing)
 * masculine
 * feminine
 * plural   (more than one person, place or thing)
 * adjective (a word used to describe a noun)
 * adverb   (a word that tells you when, where or how)
 * subject  (the person or thing performing the action of the verb)
 * object   (the person or thing receiving the action of the verb)
 * negation (modifying a verb to say no, not, never, nobody, no longer, nothing or only)
 * imperative (form of verb suggesting or commanding an action)

Terms benefiting from some more explanation

 * indefinite article (the word for "a" or "an")
 * definite article  (the word for "the")
 * partitive article (the word for "some")
 * direct object
 * indirect object
 * interrogative     (form of verb used to ask a question)
 * infinitive        (the part of the verb, which is preceded by "to" (or includes "to"?))
 * impersonal verbs
 * tense             (different verb forms for actions in the past, present or future)
 * present tense
 * future tense
 * past (perfect) tense
 * imperfect tense (what used to happen or how things used to be)
 * past participle
 * reflexive verb
 * pronoun     (a word used instead of a noun)
 * prepositions (a word expressing a relation between one thing or person and another)
 * conjunctions (words that join two sentences (clauses?) together)

Overly-technical terms
The following terms in these appendices might be replaced by less formal terminology if possible:
 * disjunctive-pronoun
 * adjectives or past participles are declined (made to "agree")
 * referring pronoun
 * passive voice
 * stress pronouns