Practice Makes Perfect

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EXERCICE

  

Faire correspondre les deux colonnes.

     1.  Marie serait ravie 

a.  venir manger à la maison ce soir.

     2.  Vous devriez 

b.  elle circulait en vélo.

     3.  Quand elle habitait à la campagne,  c.  si Marc l’invitait à dîner.

     4.  Je serais moins inquiet 

d.   me prévenir que tes parents venaient aussi.

     5.  Tu aurais dû 

e.  si tu me téléphonais en arrivant.

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The present subjunctive

The subjunctive is a mood, not a tense. The mood of a verb determines how one 

views an event. You have already studied verb tenses in the indicative mood (le 

présent, l’imparfait, and le futur), stating objective facts, and in the conditional 

mood, relating to possibilities. In Chapter 23 we will study the imperative mood 

that gives commands. The subjunctive is another mood that refers to someone’s 

opinion or deals with hypothetical actions.

For most verbs, the present of the subjunctive is formed by adding the sub-

junctive endings (-e, -es, -e, -ions, -iez, -ent) to the stem. The stem for je, tu, il/