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Subject-Verb Agreement - Agreement of the past participle following “être” with the subject of a passive

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Definitions[edit | edit source]

Subject-verb agreement[edit | edit source]

The agreement in French (the agreement) is the way to choose the correct ending for verbs in terms of grammatical persons, gender and number, depending on their subject.

Past participle[edit | edit source]

The past participle is a verb form with several roles. It’s essential in the creation of compound verb tenses/moods and the passive voice, and it can also be used as an adjective. The French past participle usually ends -é, -i, or -u, and is equivalent to -ed or -en in English.

Passive[edit | edit source]

The passive is constructed from a transitive verb with the transformation of the direct object into a subject and with:

"a été" + past participle

Agreement of the past participle[edit | edit source]

The past participle agrees with the subject in gender and number in the following cases:

  • La guerre a été provoquée par une attaque surprise

The war was sparked by a surprise attack

  • Les gens ont été choqués par cet œuvre

People were shocked by this work of art

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Nouns


Determiners


Personal and impersonal pronouns


Adjectives


Adverbs


Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers


Verb forms


Verb constructions


Verb and participle agreement


Tense


The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives


The infinitive


Prepositions


Question formation


Relative clauses


Negation


Conjunctions and other linking constructions

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