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<div style="font-size:200%">Agreement of the past participle with the use of the auxiliary "avoir" and a direct object which precedes.</div>
<div style="font-size:200%">Agreement of the past participle with the use of the auxiliary "avoir" and a direct object which precedes.</div>
There are 3 cases where the past participle agrees with the direct object above in compound tenses that use the auxiliary "avoir":
There are 3 cases where the past participle agrees with the direct object above in compound tenses that use the auxiliary "avoir":
# When the direct object above is an unstressed pronoun. For example: "le", "la", "les", "me", "te" etc. I saw them 'I saw them';
# When the direct object above is an unstressed pronoun. For example: "le", "la", "les", "me", "te" etc. "Je les '''ai''' vu'''s'''" (I saw them).
# When the preceding direct object is at the start of a relative clause:  
# When the preceding direct object is at the start of a relative clause: for example: "La lettre que j''''ai''' écri'''te'''" (The letter which I wrote).
for example: *"La lettre que j'ai écrite" (The letter which I wrote).
# in questions, when the direct object has been moved before the past participle, for example: "Quelle lettre '''a'''-t-il écri'''te''' ?" (What letter did he write?).
# in questions, when the direct object has been moved before the past participle, for example: "Quelle lettre a-t-il écrite ?" (What letter did he write?).




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