James Dempsey

Is it a compound tense?

That means I'm looking for more than one word.

I'd be looking at the different kinds of pronouns and their different roles.

So there's subject, direct object, indirect object, adverbial.

They all perform a different role in a sentence.

But what they maintain is they refer back to something that had to be mentioned beforehand and they keep their number and gender.

So they have to refer to something plural and or masculine and or feminine and or singular, if you get me.

So, yeah, I'd be doing my detective work that way.

The first thing you're looking at is a journalistic reading comprehension.

So there are two reading comprehensions.

They're each worth 60 marks.

The first one is a piece of journalism.

Why does that matter?

Because it'll be written in probably the present tense or the passé composé and the imparfait, maybe.

But you're looking at maybe future tenses, conditionals as well.

The second text is a piece of literature.

That's kind of more important because it'll definitely be written in the imparfait.

And it's possible that it'll be written in a tense called the passé simple.

which is a unique tense to literary French.

Now, don't freak out if you've never, if your teachers ever mentioned that.