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Some verbs and verbal expressions can be followed by adjectives. With the following verbs/verbal expressions, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the subject: | Some verbs and verbal expressions can be followed by adjectives. With the following verbs/verbal expressions, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the subject: | ||
==Verbs== | ===Verbs=== | ||
tab1 | tab1 | ||
==Phrases== | ===Phrases=== | ||
*Elle est aussi belle que sa soeur | *Elle est aussi belle que sa soeur | ||
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With the following verbs, mainly those which express an opinion, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the direct object: | With the following verbs, mainly those which express an opinion, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the direct object: | ||
==Verbs== | ===Verbs=== | ||
tab2 | tab2 | ||
==Phrases== | ===Phrases=== | ||
*Je croyais la bataille perdue d'avance | *Je croyais la bataille perdue d'avance | ||
Revision as of 22:35, 19 October 2021
Adjectives which follow verbs or verbal expressions
adjectives must agree in number and gender with the subject
Some verbs and verbal expressions can be followed by adjectives. With the following verbs/verbal expressions, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the subject:
Verbs
tab1
Phrases
- Elle est aussi belle que sa soeur
She is as pretty as her sister
- Les enfants semblent énervés par ce temps
The children seem over-excited by this weather
- Tous les membres de la famille passent pour pauvres
AU the members of the family are thought to be poor
Adjectives must agree in number and gender with the direct object
With the following verbs, mainly those which express an opinion, adjectives must agree in number and gender with the direct object:
Verbs
tab2
Phrases
- Je croyais la bataille perdue d'avance
I thought the battle was already lost
- Je les devine un peu fâchés par cette histoire
I guess they are a little bit annoyed by this affair
- Vous les voyez toujours petits; mais ils ont grandi
You see them as if they were still little; but they've grown up
- Les enfants traitaient les petits voisins de lâches
The children were calling the little neighbours cowards