French writing for DELF and TCF · Lesson 6 of 6
Proofreading your text
Keep five minutes at the end of the exam to reread. Read your text several times, each time for one kind of mistake: verbs, then agreement, then accents and punctuation. One pass for everything misses most errors.
Check each verb against its subject: , . Check each past participle: with it agrees with the subject, as in . Check each adjective against its noun: .
Then check accents ( or , or ), homophones ( or , or ) and punctuation: a capital after each full stop, and no comma between a subject and its verb.
Examples
- Les enfants jouent dans le jardin.
- Elles sont parties tôt ce matin.
- Où est la réponse claire que tu attendais ?
- Ces livres sont à ma sœur ; ses amis les aiment aussi.