[Music] Hi friends, we're meeting today to talk about the subject tribe. The subject tribe is a word or group of words that we'll only find after state verbs. So it's really important to identify state verbs in a sentence. We can put verbs into two groups: action verbs that indicate what the subject does, which therefore expresses an action, and state verbs that indicate what the subject is. There aren't many of them, and it's a verb that we can replace with être. So we'll have semblant part être rester in some cases we'll also have verbal expressions like avoir l'air after this type of glass. We can find an attribute of the subject. An attribute of the subject can be an adjective. If the subject tribe is an adjective, they agree in gender and number with the subject. This sentence, for example, c'est renard semble sché, semble le verb était is a state verb. We can replace it with être. These foxes are sly in this case cunning and attributes of the subject fox they agree in jeans and have no mark of the feminine since the subject is masculine on the other hand marks the plural health at the end of cunning another sentence these cars appear 9 we are dealing with the verb to appear appear is a verb of state we can replace it with to be these cars are 9.9 and attributes of the subject these cars it therefore takes the mark of the feminine e and the ama of the plural s since they agree in gender and number with the subject the subject can also be a noun phrase for example in this sentence this man is a former officer a former officer this noun phrase is found after a verb of state to be a former officer and a tribute of the subject this man obviously the noun phrase is the same gender and the same number as the subject it would not occur to you to say this man is a nurse be careful not to confuse the direct object complement which is only taken after avermes of action and the tribe of the subject which is only found after avermes of state in a sentence with an action verb in general we have two objects a person an object or two people for example the walker greets the fisherman we have two people the walker subject who does an action he greets another person the fisherman direct object complement in the sentence this walker is a sinner there is only one person a walker who is a sinner we have a sentence with a state verb a fisherman and attributes of the subject the walker see you soon and pont sainte subscribers and activate the bell hello [Music]