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I understand this is plus que parfait, but shouldn't it be avait fait? Why is there an e here?

Write "Bob is woken up by the alarm clock every day." : Bob ________ le réveil tous les jours.

The correct answer is "Bob est réveillé par le réveil tous les jours.

I get that the alarm clock is the subject, that Bob is the object, so the sentence is in the passive voice. What confuses me is "est réveillé." What tense is that? Since it is habitual, I think of l'imparfait ("réveillait"). Then "est reveillé" seems like passé composé, with an auxilliare followed by the participe passé, but avoir is the auxilliare for réveiller, not être. Word Reference shows reveillé as an adjective, but it seems like a verb as it is used in this sentence.

I'm sure as soon as I hit "Ask Question" the answer will be blindingly obvious to me, but in case that doesn't happen, could someone clear this up? Thanks!

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Hi. Would it also be correct if I had added the little pronoun “en” in this final sentence of the exercise.

i.e. “et nous en avons profité de chaque minute“, or “nous en avons apprécié chaque minute” or “nous en avons savouré chaque minute“ ? (I was trying to be very literal and trying to get the “of it” into the sentence instead of just “we enjoyed every minute”) 

Thanks.

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Thank you

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