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Some common words containing 'tant' include Habitant, Habitants, Important. These words are frequently used in everyday English communication.

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Habitant Noun Habitants Noun (plural) Important Adjective

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1. Which word is closest in meaning to the general sense of 'habitant'?

Tourist Resident Landlord Nomad

2. Which pronunciation of 'habitant' is correct in English?

ha-bi-TANT HAB-it-ant ha-BEE-tant HAB-ih-tuhnt

3. Choose the correct plural of 'habitant.'

Habitantes Habitants Habitaunts Habitation

4. In New France, most habitants farmed ____.

Round fields Terraces on mountains Long, narrow strips along the St. Lawrence Indoor crops

5. What is the correct comparative form of 'important'?

Importanter More important Most important Importantlier

6. What is the difference between 'important' and 'urgent'?

They mean the same thing. Important means it matters; urgent means it must be done now. Urgent means it matters; important means it must be done now. Important is for people; urgent is for things.

7. Which phrase is French and still used in English historical writing?

Les habitants Le habitant Los habitantes Der Habitanten

8. What part of speech is the word 'important'?

Noun Adjective Verb Adverb

9. What does 'habitant' mean in Canadian history?

A fur trader A Catholic missionary A French-Canadian farmer-settler of New France A British soldier

10. What is the key difference between 'habitants' and 'habitations'?

Habitations is the older word There is no difference Habitants means farms Habitants are people; habitations are dwellings

11. How is 'habitant' rendered in the Canadian French style often printed in older books?

HAB-ih-tant ha-BIT-ant ah-bee-TAHN AB-uh-tunt

12. Which sentence uses 'habitant' correctly?

The habitant paddled his canoe to the seigneur's mill. She habitant near the river. Three habitant were singing. A habitants lived there.

13. How is the final s of French 'habitants' treated in French?

It is voiced like z It sounds like double s It becomes a ts cluster It is silent

14. Pick the grammatically correct sentence.

The habitants was busy A habitants lived there The habitants gathered for the barn raising The habitants builds mills

15. When was the seigneurial system abolished?

1854 1608 1760 1897

16. What is the origin of the word 'important'?

Greek 'portare' Latin 'importare' French 'importer' German 'wichtig'

17. Which preposition correctly completes: 'This ring is very important ___ my mother.'

for at to with

18. What is the noun form of 'important'?

Importantly Importation Importance Importing

19. Which of the following is a common collocation with 'important'?

Important weather Important role Important metal Important gravity

20. Which spelling is correct?

Habbitant Habitent Habitant Habitante

21. Which word is an antonym for 'important'?

Crucial Vital Trivial Significant

22. How many syllables does 'important' have, and which is stressed?

Two, first syllable Three, second syllable Three, first syllable Two, second syllable

23. What was the seigneurial system?

A fishing law A military draft A landholding system under which New France farmers held river lots from a seigneur A trade agreement with Britain

24. Which is the correct possessive form for the group?

Habitant's songs, meaning the group's songs Habitants' songs Habitants songs with no apostrophe ever Habitantes' songs

25. What does 'habitants' mean?

Plural of habitant: inhabitants, especially the French-Canadian farm families of New France Farm buildings A kind of stew A religious order

26. Which sentence uses 'important' correctly?

He is very importance. It is important to sleep. He spoke important. This is importanter.

27. Which sentence uses 'habitants' in its archaic general English sense?

The report described the habitants of the valley as fishers and hunters He habitants there A habitants visited us The habitants is here

28. Where does the word 'habitant' come from?

Old French, from Late Latin habitantem, meaning 'dwelling' Old Norse, meaning 'farm' Dutch, meaning 'field' A Germanic root meaning 'hut'

29. One habitant, two ____.

Habitation Habitants Habitantes Habitantses

30. In W. H. Drummond's 1897 collection 'The Habitant,' whose voice carries the poems?

A British officer A city banker A voyageur A French-Canadian farmer telling his life in dialect verse