Practice Makes Perfect

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EXERCICE

  

Traduire les phrases suivantes.

  1.  She read the newspaper.

  2.  We went to Paris.

  3.  They left last night.

  4.  He had to leave at five o’clock.

  5.  They lived in Italy.

  6.  Zola died in 1902.

  7.  I wrote a long letter.

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  8.  She has painted the wall white.

  9.  She stayed at home.

10.  He took some vacation.

Pronominal verbs in the 

passé composé

As we mentioned earlier, all pronominal verbs are conjugated with être. The reflexive pronouns 

precede the auxiliary verb (être). In most cases, the past participle agrees in gender and number 

with the subject of the pronominal verb.