A typical day: partitive, liaison, perfect tense questions
Learning outcomes
I can ask and answer 'est-ce que' questions in the perfect tense to describe daily life.
I can pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences and liaison confidently.
A typical day: partitive, liaison, perfect tense questions
Learning outcomes
I can ask and answer 'est-ce que' questions in the perfect tense to describe daily life.
I can pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences and liaison confidently.
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Key learning points
- You can pronounce a usually silent final consonant if it is followed by a vowel; this is liaison.
- Use the partitive article with uncountable nouns/ non-specific amounts; change to 'de' after quantities/negatives.
- Use 'est-ce que' at the beginning of a sentence to signal questioning.
- To make perfect tense sentences negative, put 'ne … pas' around the form of avoir.
Keywords
Liaison - pronouncing a usually silent final consonant because a word starting with a vowel follows
Partitive article - refers to parts of things; often means 'some' in English
Est-ce que - questioning device
Common misconception
Ne ... pas goes around the main verb (the past participle) in perfect tense sentences.
Just like in other double verb sentences, ne...pas goes around the first verb; in the perfect tense, that's the conjugated form of 'avoir'.
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