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Pouquoi ne pas utiliser " Savez que vous êtes loin d'etre le seul au lieu de "Sachez que vous êtes loin d'être le seul"? L'utilisation du subjonctif est-elle nécessaire ?
Kevin
1. Ce sont de longues jupes nouvelles. 2. Ce sont des jupes longues et nouvelles. 3. Ce sont de longues jupes nouvelles. 4. Ce sont de longues et nouvelles jupes. Which one is the correct sentence? Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
"Il est bon", refers to the actor or the film? If it is the film, shouldn't it be "c'et bon"?
In one quiz question it states :
Quand j'étais enfant, ________ au chœur du collège.
When I was a child, I used to belong to the high school choir.
(HINT: Use "appartenir" (to belong))
The correct English for collège is middle school. Lycée is high school.
Can you explain why passé composé is used to translate 'I didn't have the time before my trip'? I always make this mistake because I think that the speaker means they didn't have the time for an extended period of time and I often think that imparfait should be used in those cases.
For "these old objects" I tried "ces objets anciens" and was corrected to "ces anciens objets". Is ancien going before the noun here because there is some sense of former-ness (the objects aren't what they used to be), even though they are still objects?
A post further down says "soit..soit is used when followed by anything other than a verb". I’ve just done a quiz elsewhere where the answer they wanted was "Soit tu mets du déodorant, soit je te quitte"! Is this a usage that exists but isn’t good French? If so, what’s a better way to express it? I can’t imagine "soit que" is very common and "que" + subjunctive verb seems to be a yes/no situation (eg que tu le mettes ou pas) rather than offering two alternative verbs.
Thank you.
Pourquoi on ne peut pas écrire?
1)Après être séparé au lieu de après s’être séparé. Dans la premiere option est-ce qu'il faut un objet....après être séparé de .... qqchose
2)six mois avant au lieu de six mois plus tôt?
3)That was the last time we played matchmakers
j'ai ecrit
c’était la dernière fois qu'on a joué les matchmakers.(c'est acceptable??)
Merci .
My teacher says there are rules for using the subject sentences. I can't find them anywhere.
May have found a missing translation. I put "j'ai choisi de passer le reste de la nuit dans les buissons de Mme. Maron !" and was marked wrong, but "j'ai décidé de passer le reste de la nuit dans les buissons de Mme Maron !" and "j'ai choisi de finir la nuit dans les buissons de Mme Maron !" are accepted translations.
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