Passé Composé usage

Passé Composé usage

You will be presented with several sentences. Some will need avoir as the helping verb, and others will need être as the helping verb. You will need to remember to make all necessary agreement spelling changes.

Multiple Choice

"Ils ont écouté de la musique" means what in English?

• I listened to music.
• You (singular) listened to music.
• We listened to music.
• They listened to music.

Multiple Choice

What is the ending for a regular -ER verb in the past tense?

• é
• e
• ê

Multiple Choice

What do we use the "passé composé" for? 

• To talk about what we're doing now in the present
• To talk about what we did in the past
• To talk about what we will do in the future 

Multiple Choice

What verb do we always need to use when putting a regular -ER verb into the past tense? 

• Être
• Manger
• Jouer
• Avoir

Intransitive verbs are conjugated in the P.C. using être as the auxiliary

• When être is used, the past participle agrees in number and gender with the subject of the sentence.

• Sometimes intransitive verbs may have a direct object. In that case, avoir will be the helping verb.

• Je suis sortie. J'ai sorti la poubelle.

Irregular passé composé past participles will be irregular as well. Write them at the bottom of the index cards you did last year for each irregular verb.

• voir = vu

• faire = fait

• lire = lu

• avoir = eu

• prendre = pris

• boire = bu

• être = été

Verbs conjugated with être in the passé composé are intransitive

• They do not take a direct object.

• the past participle agrees in number and gender with the subject of the verb.

Multiple Choice

Conjuguez la phrase suivante avec le bon auxiliaire :

"Elle ______________ (naître) le 26 mai."

• est né

• a née

• a né

• est née

Multiple Choice

Conjuguez la phrase suivante avec le bon auxiliaire :

"Ils __________ (tomber) dans les escaliers."

• ont tombé

• sont tombé

• sont tombés

• ont tombés

Multiple Choice

What helping verb does "être" take in the passé composé?

• être
• avoir

Multiple Choice

Translate the following sentence into French:
My sisters were born on May 27th. 

• Mes soeurs ont nées le 27 mai.
• Mes soeurs sont nées le 27 mai.
• Mes soeurs sont né le 27 mai.
• Mes soeurs ont né le 27 mai.

Multiple Choice

Au passé composé avec l'auxiliaire être, quand le sujet est féminin, j'ajoute _______ au participe passé.

• un E
• un S
• un X
• un I

Multiple Choice

What's wrong with this sentence?
Nous sortis vendredi soir.

• It doesn't have agreement.
• It's missing a helping verb.
• Nothing is wrong.
• It doesn't make sense...No one goes out on Friday's.

Multiple Choice

When should you use the passé composé?

• When talking about specific times in the past.
• When talking about what's happening now.
• Whenever you want to.
• When talking about what you'll do tomorrow.

Multiple Choice

What must you add to the end of the past participle if the subject of the passé composé is masculine and plural?

• nothing
• an "s"
• an "e"
• an "es"

Multiple Choice

What verbs take être in the passé composé?

• Almost all of them
• DR & MRS VAN DER TRAMPP
• Verbs of living and eating
• Verbs that end in "r"