Bonjour. Working through writing challenge 54(B1) this morning I was completely confused by your use of 'avoir' (il y avait) as the translation of 'there were' (être) in question 26. The one huge problem I am having with my learning is getting my head around the use of imparfait/passé composé so to have you bowl a googly like this just confusticated me completely. Why use avoir?
Sorry to try your patience.... Regards, Merle Drury
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Bonjour Merle,
Do you know how to say "there is"? It's il y a - that last word is the third person singular of avoir. So for the imperfect, you again need avoir in the third person singular.
That was a bit brutal, but I'd like to see a lot more. It's very nice to have sentences that are at my level. If I could do a bunch of those every day it would help me immensely. Thanks.