Qui a fait le ménage ? Perfect tense, relative clauses, negation
I can understand conversation about everyday household tasks using the perfect tense, relative pronouns and negatives.
Qui a fait le ménage ? Perfect tense, relative clauses, negation
I can understand conversation about everyday household tasks using the perfect tense, relative pronouns and negatives.
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Key learning points
- The perfect tense is formed by combining part of 'avoir' or 'être' (the auxiliary verb) and a past participle.
- 'Qui' means ‘who?’ in a question, but it is the relative pronoun ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘or ‘that’ in the middle of a sentence.
- When the relative pronoun relates to the object of the sentence, we use 'que' (who/whom, that or which), not 'qui'.
- In most negative phrases in the perfect tense, the negative structure goes around the part of 'avoir' or 'être'.
Keywords
Relative pronoun - a pronoun that introduces a relative clause
Common misconception
'Qui' always means the question 'who?'.
When used in an interrogative sense, 'qui ?' means 'who?'. As a relative pronoun, 'qui' introduces more information about the subject in the main clause and can be translated as 'who', 'which' or 'that'.
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Mini whiteboards and pens would be useful, if available.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Who is it?
The book that is on the table.
The person to whom I spoke.
Who did that?