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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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Put the following words in the correct order to form a sentence 'I washed the dishes' in the perfect tense.
Q2.Which of the following auxiliary verbs is most commonly used to form the perfect tense of the verb ranger (to tidy)?
Q3.Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun: C'est le voisin a réparé le robinet. (It's the neighbour who fixed the tap.)
Q4.Which of the following sentences correctly uses a negative structure in the perfect tense?
Q5.Arrange these words to create a sentence with a relative pronoun referring to the object.
Q6.Translate the following sentence into French using the perfect tense: "She cleaned the windows."
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which sentence uses the relative pronoun 'qui' correctly?
Q2.Match the French phrase on the left with its correct English translation and grammatical function of 'qui' on the right.
Who is it?
The book that is on the table.
The person to whom I spoke.
Who did that?