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copper ridge
Two things right off the bat: Whoever wrote this was not paying attention, and is that Papyrus?
Anyway, yes, the assignment is asking you to use the imperfect and I suppose there was a list of verbs usually found in the imperfect, and if a verb is not in that list, use passé composé
vivid bobcat
Two things right off the bat: Whoever wrote this was not paying attention, and i...
haha our dept head is ancient so thats probably why, no clue what verb list it's reffering to so I'm using intution lol. for 4, do you think I would be using imparfait for both verbs or passe because it was just one summer ago?
copper ridge
haha our dept head is ancient so thats probably why, no clue what verb list it's...
What do you think?
vivid bobcat
passe because it was just that one instance
copper ridge
You're absolutely right
vivid bobcat
yipeee thanks!
vivid bobcat
You're absolutely right
okay one more, i feel like it should be passe but I dont know how to put il y a in passe... is it just il y a or what? everything I look at online is suggesting il y avait but I dont get why unless it's because the day it happened isnt specified?
copper ridge
okay one more, i feel like it should be passe but I dont know how to put il y a ...
the « a » here is the verb avoir
so as long as you know how to conjugate avoir, you know how to conjugate « y avoir » (this is a fixed expression)
copper ridge
okay one more, i feel like it should be passe but I dont know how to put il y a ...
In general, you can think of the imparfait as events with long duration with the passé composé being an action that interrupts it; or the imparfait as background with the passé composé being the foreground (main action). Do you think that « il y a » in both occurences were describing an event or an action?
vivid bobcat
hmm i think the first occurrence is passé and the second imparfait? so il y a eu and then il y avait ?
copper ridge
That could work yes
