Imparfait/pass

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Imparfait/passé composé review

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Passé composé / Imparfait

• Je avoir
• (Jai eu)
• Tu aller
• (Tu es allé(e)
• Il faire
• (Il a fait)
• Nous lire
• (Nous avons lu)
• Vous dire
• (Vous avez dit)
• Elles partir
• (Elles sont parties).

• Je avoir
• (Javais)
• Tu aller
• (Tu allais)
• Il faire
• (Il faisait)
• Nous lire
• (Nous lisions)
• Vous dire
• (Vous disiez)
• Elles partir
• (Elles partaient)

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Would the underlined verbs be in P.C. or IMP?

• When I was little, my friend Sarah and I used to
  walk to the drugstore on weekends.
• One day, it was so hot outside, we decided to
  wear our bathing suits to the store!
• On the way back home, a man approached us from
  the alley behind the store.
• He was wearing a tennis suit.
• He asked us if we wanted to see a puppet show in
  his van.
• I was going to say yes. But then Sarah said he
  might be a kidnapper. So we ran away from him
  and hurried all the way home.

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Hints that its PC or IMP

• PC
• Quand Soudain
• Un jour
• Quand Tout à coup
• À ce moment
• À cet instant
• Mais cette fois-ci

• IMP
• Quand jetais petit(e)
• Tous les jours
• Tous les week-end
• Chaque jour/Chaque week-end
• Souvent
• De temps en temps

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Reminders

• Passé Composé
• Happened just once
• Know when it started or ended
• Interrupts something else

• Imparfait
• The way things used to be/were
• Repetetive
• Not sure when started
• What gets interrupted (I was studying, when.)