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What (subject). Qu'est-ce que (or) que. What (object). Qu'est-ce que la grammaire? (or) What is grammar? Qu'est-ce que c'est que la grammaire? Qu'est-ce? (simple question) \ Qu'est-ce que c'est? (emphatic) | What is it? Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela? / (more insistent) Quel livre avez-vous?--Quelle What book have you?--What plume?--Je ne sais quelle idee pen?--I don't know what idea lui est venue.--Quel homme! has struck him.--What _a_ man! C'est un beau pays _que_ France is a beautiful country. la France. Je ne le connais pas. I do not know him (acquaintance). Il joue _de_ la guitarre. He plays the guitar. Savez-vous jouer _aux_ Do you _know how_ to play cartes? cards? A. 1. Who sent you that letter? 2. Which of the letters did you mail? 3. Do you know to whom it was addressed? 4. Whose valet is he? 5. What did you find on the desk? 6. What was[1] it that the carter said to the culprit? 7. Did he know who had forged the signature? 8. What[2] was the patient's occupation? 9. What! He is gone? I don't know what to think of[3] it.[3] 10. Who is playing cards in that room? 11. I don't know what[4] I was thinking of.[5] 12. Whose[6] is this violin? 13. It is mine, what are you going to do with[3] it?[3] 14. Whom do you wish to see?--M. Blanc.--Which one,[7] the father or the son? 15. It is a difficult thing[8] to learn to write well. 16. Does she know how[7] to play the piano? 17. Don't you know what a forger is?[9] 18. I have no[10] use for[11] your advice. 19. "Oh ! A[12] fine thing it[7] is[7] to[8] know something!" says M. Jourdain in the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" of Moliere. 20. Did the doctor know what instrument he played? 21. The king did not know which country to attack first.[13] 22. Do you see that object? What is it? 23. If I knew him well, I would invite him. [Footnotes 1: _present._ 2: _adjective._ 3: en. 4: quoi. 5: a; _what order?_ 6: _possession._ 7: _omit._ 8: _emphatic inversion; supply_ que. 9: "_what it is that a forger_." 10: _omit_ pas. 11: que faire de. 12: _definite article._ 13: _supply definite article._] B. Make a list of interrogative words (adverbs, etc.) not included in examples above and illustrate their use in questions and exclamations. 124. REPARTIE D'UN AMI DE VOLTAIRE Un jour un
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