Switzerland: perfect tense negation
Learning outcomes
I can form negative sentences in the perfect tense and say what I and others did and didn’t do on holiday.
I can recognise and pronounce the SSC [au/eau] and know it is the same sound as the closed [o/ô].
Switzerland: perfect tense negation
Learning outcomes
I can form negative sentences in the perfect tense and say what I and others did and didn’t do on holiday.
I can recognise and pronounce the SSC [au/eau] and know it is the same sound as the closed [o/ô].
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Key learning points
- The SSC [au/eau] is in the word 'gauche' which means 'left'.
- The SSC [au/eau] is identical to the closed [o/ô] even though they are spelled differently.
- To make a sentence mean the opposite, we use negation. One way to do this is to use 'ne … pas' around the main verb.
- With two-verb structures like the perfect tense, the 'ne ... pas' surrounds the first verb, the form of 'avoir'.
- There is no one-word equivalent for 'didn't' in French. It is expressed by using 'ne ... pas' and the perfect tense.
Keywords
Closed [o/ô] - sound-symbol correspondence (SSC) like the [o] in 'photo'
[au/eau] - sound-symbol correspondence (SSC) like the [au] in 'gauche'
Negation - two words, e.g. 'ne … pas', around the main verb negating meaning
Ne … pas - French adverb which fits around the main verb in a sentence to mean 'not'
Common misconception
I have to translate 'didn't' into French.
There is no direct translation for 'didn't' in French. Using 'ne ... pas' with the perfect tense expresses the equivalent of 'didn't' in French.
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