La chaîne d'accord article-adjectif-nom

Unité GR-09 · campagne 4 · un genre, toute la chaîne.

Everything the suffix units predicted now has to be spent: the gender and number of the noun propagate to every word attached to it. Décision is feminine, so the whole chain bends — une décision importante, ces décisions importantes. One noun, one lookup, then agreement is bookkeeping:

1. Fix the gender (suffix heuristics from GR-07/GR-08, or the dictionary).
2. Fix the number from the sentence.
3. Carry both across article, adjective(s), and any participle that joins the phrase later.

Two refinements complete the written chain at B2:

• des → de before a preposed plural adjective. When the adjective moves in front of the noun, des drops to de: des progrès remarquables but de beaux progrès, de vrais progrès. Adjective after the noun — des stays.
• bel, nouvel, vieil. Before a vowel or mute h, the masculine beau, nouveau, vieux take their liaison forms: un bel appartement, un nouvel ami, un vieil homme. The feminine is unaffected — une belle année.

A chain error is rarely one error: write un décision and important follows it into the ditch. The practice set therefore grades whole chains, not single words — including the comité / décision gender pair from GR-07, now dressed with adjectives.

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