IF clauses – Part 2

IF clauses – Les phrases avec SI

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IF clauses are used in French when expressing a hypothesis, a condition that hasn’t happened yet, or that didn’t happen.

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This worksheet applies to literary French and only to literary French. The three instances below are almost never used, and certainly never in spoken French.

IF clause -- following clause

1. pluperfect -- pluperfect subjunctive

2. pluperfect subjunctive -- past conditional

3. pluperfect subjunctive -- pluperfect subjunctive

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In context

• Si j’avais fait du français, je fusse allé/e à Paris.
  Si j’eusse fait du français, je serais allé/e à Paris.
  Si j’eusse fait du français, je fusse allé/e à Paris.

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