Thursday, March 5, 2015

Proofreading

March 5, 2015

We received Paul's proofreading and we discussed about the mistakes. One question was asked:
were we going to use "vous", "tu" or an impersonal structure such as "il faut"?  

Note: "tu" is the second person singular and "vous" is the second person plural in French.



For the first question, we tried to find many technical guides on the Internet and see if most of them used the personal pronouns "vous" and "tu". Most of them used "vous" but we weren't that sure.  Fortunately, that question was fully resolved  during the "communication technique" class. Indeed, our teacher told us it was ok to use both ( be careful : only use the same one  all along the text to be coherent). Indeed,  "vous" was used for neutrality and "tu" was used to speak directly to the reader.









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