Switzerland: perfect tense negation
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I can form negative sentences in the perfect tense and say what I and others did and didn’t do on holiday.
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The SSC [au/eau] is in the word 'gauche' which means 'left'.
The SSC [au/eau] is identical to the closed [o/ô] even though they are spelled differently.
To make a sentence mean the opposite, we use negation. One way to do this is to use 'ne … pas' around the main verb.
With two-verb structures like the perfect tense, the 'ne ... pas' surrounds the first verb, the form of 'avoir'.
There is no one-word equivalent for 'didn't' in French. It is expressed by using 'ne ... pas' and the perfect tense.
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