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The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).
The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite past), is the literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language, used predominantly in formal writing (including history and literature) and formal speech.
The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has consequence in present. [1] The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like "I have finished".
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Location map of Chagos Archipelago, with Peros Banhos. The atoll has a total area of 503 km 2 (194 sq mi), but a land area of only 9.6 km 2 (3.7 sq mi), made up by some 32 islets. 490 km 2 (189 sq mi), most of the remaining surface is occupied by the lagoon, which is connected to the open sea and the reef flat.
The strike was extraordinarily comprehensive. According to one commentator: [1]: 334 Everything was at a stand: the dead bodies were cast unceremoniously into the river, because there were none to perform the obsequial rites; and the very thieves refrained from the exercise of their vocation, although the shops and houses were left without protection…
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