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-<div style="font-size:200%"> Agreement of the past participle when using “avoir” with a preceding direct object</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 three cases where past participles agree with preceding direct objects in the compound tenses of verbs conjugated with 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 preceding direct object is an unstressed pronoun like "le", "la", "les", "me", "te" etc., e.g. Je les ai vus 'I saw them';
+# When the preceding direct object is at the start of a relative clause:
-# when the preceding direct object is the head of a relative clause: e.g. La lettre que j'ai écrite '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 to a position preceding the past participle, e.g. Quelle lettre a-t-il écrite?
+# 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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