Homework Help: French

Posted by Gabrielle on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 10:11am.

If you're writing a sentence in French with two verbs, the first being l'imparfait, would the second one be in the infinitive? For example "Le peuple prehistoriques était intelligente parce que ils pouvaient ériger les monuments sans des machines" ? Is this correct?

French - Frenchy, Monday, February 21, 2011 at 2:07pm
Generally when there are two consecutive verbs, the second one is infinitive.
But not auxiliary + past participle.
Ex : Je dois partir (I must go)
Je suis venu (I came)
"Les peuples préhistoriques était intelligents ( parce que) car ils pouvaient ériger des monuments sans machines"
French - Frenchy, Monday, February 21, 2011 at 2:09pm
Les peuples préhistoriques étaient intelligents....
Sorry I forgot the plural of "étaient"
French - SraJMcGin, Monday, February 21, 2011 at 3:04pm
and also "parce qu'ils ouvaient eriger...
OR car ils pouvaient ériger...

Sra (aka Mme)

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