Activities at school: -er 1 and 2-verb phrases

The SSCs [-tion] and [-ssion] make the same sound. Unlike the English 'sh' sound, they make a 's' sound in French. An infinitive tells us the general meaning of a verb: parler (to speak). To say who is doing the action, we change the verb to a finite form, e.g. je parle (I speak). A 1-verb structure is when just one finite verb appears in a sentence, e.g. je parle français. In a 2-verb structure, a finite verb is followed by a second verb in the infinitive form: j'aime parler.