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Chapter 9: Agreement


Instructions

Chapter 9 has seven sets of exercises, with corresponding instructions for each exercise below. 

Answers must use the appropriate capitalization/case, punctuation, and accents to be considered correct. Answers must be typed in lower case (except for initial capital letters a sentence) and use a full stop at the end of a sentence. Other examples of correct punctuation include putting a space before exclamation marks / question marks / semi-colons / colons in French; using French guillemets; putting titles (including film titles) in italics, and so on.

Some write-in answers may require you to include the following characters: à, â, ç, Ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ô, û and œ. To type these characters in the answer box, you may copy and paste from these instructions. (Select the character and copy using Ctrl+C and paste using Ctrl+V.)

Exercise 1: Subject–verb agreement (write-in)

Complete each sentence by conjugating the verb in brackets in the tense indicated so that it agrees with the subjects.

Exercise 2: Past participle agreement with subject ‘être’ in compound past (perfect) and passive constructions (write-in)

Complete each sentence by making the past participle in brackets agree with the subject as required. Type only the past participle in the answer box.

Exercise 3: Agreement of the past participle with direct objects preceding ‘avoir’ (write-in)

Complete each sentence by making the underlined past participle agree with the preceding direct object as required. Type only the past participle in the answer box.

Exercise 4: Agreement of the past participle: preceding direct and indirect objects distinction (multiple choice)

Select the correct form of the underlined past participle in each sentence.

Exercise 5: Agreement of the past participle: relative clauses (multiple choice)

Select the correct form of the underlined past participle in each sentence.

Exercise 6: Agreement of the past participle: questions (write-in)

Type the correct form of the past participle given in brackets.

Exercise 7: Agreement of the past participle: infinitives and pronominals (write-in)

Type the correct form of the past participle given in brackets.

Characters

Some write-in answers may require you to include the following characters:

To type these characters in the answer box, you may copy and paste from these instructions. (Select the character and copy using Ctrl+C and paste using Ctrl+V.)