Microsoft Word – FGB§2 verbs
Microsoft Word – FGB§2 verbs
Microsoft Word – FGB§2 verbs
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Exercise 22 (use of the past historic)<br />
1 He finished his work this morning.<br />
2 Queen Victoria reigned for sixty years.<br />
3 He was shocked at the news.<br />
4 There was a loud explosion.<br />
5 He came at three o’clock.<br />
6 I gave the book to my colleague.<br />
7 He wrote several letters.<br />
8 Christopher Columbus was born in Spain.<br />
9 His argument convinced me.<br />
10 The mountaineer reached the summit.<br />
11 She drove the car to the town.<br />
12 The bishop read the document.<br />
13 Dali painted this surrealist picture.<br />
14 The king died in 1952.<br />
15 He did the work rapidly.<br />
COMPOUND TENSES<br />
Compound tenses are all formed with an AUXILIARY VERB (avoir or être) and a PAST<br />
PARTICIPLE. The tenses are as follows:<br />
perfect pluperfect<br />
future perfect conditional perfect<br />
past anterior passé surcomposé<br />
perfect subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive<br />
FORMATION OF THE PAST PARTICIPLE<br />
For all regular <strong>verbs</strong>, take the final TWO letters from the infinitive and add:<br />
ER <strong>verbs</strong>: é donner - donné<br />
RE <strong>verbs</strong>: u vendre - vendu<br />
IR <strong>verbs</strong>: i finir - fini
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