Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents/Table des matières
- Preface/Préface
- Acknowledgments/Remerciements
- Brief introduction to the French language (with reference to the French of francophone countries)/Brève introduction à la langue française (avec référence au français des pays francophones)
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- 45 Personal pronouns and pronouns as objects/Les pronoms personnels, les pronoms comme objets
- 46 The pronouns en and y/Les pronoms en et y
- 47 Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns/Les adjectifs possessifs et les pronoms possessifs
- 48 Possessive adjectives, definite articles and usage with parts of the body and with clothes/Les adjectifs possessifs, les articles définis et l'usage concernant les parties du corps et les vêtements
- 49 Relative pronouns/Les pronoms relatifs
- 50 Interrogative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs/Les pronoms, les adjectifs et les adverbes interrogatifs
- 51 Inversion/L'inversion
- Part VI
- Part VII
- Part VIII
- Part IX
- Part X
- Part XI
48 - Possessive adjectives, definite articles and usage with parts of the body and with clothes/Les adjectifs possessifs, les articles définis et l'usage concernant les parties du corps et les vêtements
from Part V
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents/Table des matières
- Preface/Préface
- Acknowledgments/Remerciements
- Brief introduction to the French language (with reference to the French of francophone countries)/Brève introduction à la langue française (avec référence au français des pays francophones)
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- 45 Personal pronouns and pronouns as objects/Les pronoms personnels, les pronoms comme objets
- 46 The pronouns en and y/Les pronoms en et y
- 47 Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns/Les adjectifs possessifs et les pronoms possessifs
- 48 Possessive adjectives, definite articles and usage with parts of the body and with clothes/Les adjectifs possessifs, les articles définis et l'usage concernant les parties du corps et les vêtements
- 49 Relative pronouns/Les pronoms relatifs
- 50 Interrogative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs/Les pronoms, les adjectifs et les adverbes interrogatifs
- 51 Inversion/L'inversion
- Part VI
- Part VII
- Part VIII
- Part IX
- Part X
- Part XI
Summary
The following passage narrates the suffering of the people of Haiti subject to the appalling earthquake of January 2010. The brief narrative points to both the physical and moral torment of the victims and the frantic activities of doctors, nurses and the entire rescue operation. Highlighted are the numerous uses of the definite article related to the human body as opposed to the possessive adjectives that would appear in English.
The name Haïti does not begin with an aspirate h, witness l’île d’Haïti in the first paragraph. However, there is some uncertainty over this (see Marie-Éva de Villers’s MULTI dictionnaire). Doubtless the Haitians themselves have the last word as seen in the notice: “Police Nationale d’Haïti.”
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- A Reference Grammar of French , pp. 467 - 471Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011