Talk:French/Lessons/Transportation

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I came across this when recording audio for this lesson; would "quel jour est-il" be more common than "quel jour sommes-nous aujourd'hui"? Please comment. I will record the audio file later when this has been cleared up. Jonojet
 * You could be bold and add a second section oof how to say it the normal way, and leave the way we have it here as well. And hey, could we sacrifice alphabetical order and have the things on audio file first and the things that aren't can be after that?Lotusduck 17:37, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Subject-past participle agreement
This section says: ''When conjugating with être, the past participles of the above verbs must agree with the the subject of a sentence in gender and plurality. Note that there is no agreement if these verbs are conjugated with avoir.''

While this explanation is correct for the type of sentences shown, there is an exception for verbs conjugated with avoir if the participle is preceded by a direct object. In that case, the participle agrees with the gender of the preceding direct object (according to Glanville Price "A Comprehensive French Grammar" p354). Perhaps this is more complication than we need to cover in this lesson, though. Recent Runes (talk) 19:03, 29 October 2010 (UTC)