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Can one use ‘écarter les bras’ as an alternative to ‘ouvrer les bras’?
The last sentence "Je vois encore son sourire quand je l'avais surprise." I thought toujours would be better here as “encore” is more often used to describe something that's not going to last much longer, or something that's been repeated. “Toujours” expresses the fact that it's something frequent, or something very long (in this case, he will likely not forget her smile for a long time).
Could you explain why we use encore here?
Can you explain the difference? When I looked up branch (of a river), my dictionary gave branchement. This was not accepted in the context of this story.
The question doesn't specify whether the pain is physical or emotional, don't understand why answer is incorrect.
In the introduction to the exercise, the man is called Gabriel. In the actual text, he is Gilles.
In the phrase, "où ils lui ont confisqué son portable", Why is "lui" there? If it's a pronoun for "him" why does it need to be there? (The subject is "they", the verb is "confiscated" and the object is "his mobile phone".) What grammer rule requires "him" to be part of this sentence? Is there a lesson that explains the answer (I feel like I've missed something).
Why is it not "....qu'elle s'agit....." as both the sculpture (which we know is a woman and is specific) is feminine and/or Catherine is feminine?
Also is the use of the conditional perfect, because this is a legend and therefore there is some doubt as to whether it actually happened?
Please would you explain why the use of juste seems quite arbitrary, in some of your examples it’s there, but not in others.
Thank you
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