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Hi where can get some exercises on this. Also is there a lesson on it? I searched but didn't find any
In this sentence - 'Je souhaiterais presque être né dans un autre pays, de telle sorte que ma langue maternelle m'ait préparé à ces défis linguistiques' - could you have instead 'Je souhaiterais presque être né dans un autre pays, pour que ma langue maternelle 'm'ait prépraré...' ?
I can follow that most of the text is in the (futur d'anticipation).
However, I am wondering why the text switched to using the infinitive (entendre), in the last sentence? and why not use the Gerondif -en entendant. like at the beginning of the fourth sentence.
Why not just "jusqu'août"? What does the 'en" bring that is not already there? Thanks.
The question that led me here asked to fill in the proper tense of the verb ‘venir’ in this sentence: Il______heir. I wrote ‘Il est venu heir.’ The correction said the correct answer was Il sont venu. Wouldn’t the ‘sont’ tense be used instead for the third person plural (ils)?
"qu'on pouvait passer ses vacances ainsi" Why l'imparfait and not le conditionnel?
In this structure in English, you can use either an object pronoun or a subject pronoun plus a verb. You can't use a subject pronoun without a verb. "She is taller than me." OR "She is taller than I am." BUT NOT "She is taller than I."
Could you forward this technical issue to the correct department? I like to keep a copy of the exercise available while I am actually doing the exercise so that I can refer back to the suggested vocabulary if necessary. Sometimes this works, sometimes not. In this exercise, I was not able to bring up two copies at the same time. Even after starting the exercise, I was not able to bring up the page with the vocabulary while retaining my place in the exercise itself. My position in the exercise would disappear and I would see the original page. If I hit start on that page, it would jump to my position where I left off. It was impossible to keep the original page and do the exercise simultaneously. Thanks for looking into this. Send me an email if you require additional details.
Hi. I understand that one could say "Je donne les requins à Anne" (i.e. "I am giving the sharks to Anne...imagine that Anne is a marine biologist) or "Je les donne à Anne" (i.e. I am giving them to Anne) or Je les lui donne" (i.e. I am giving them to her). However, how would one say "I am giving Anne to the sharks" (imagine that Anne has upset the local mafia) using a double pronoun (i.e. "I am giving her to them"? Presumably, one cannot say "Je lui les donne" (because it would violate the rules on the order of pronouns)? What about "Je y lui donne"? Any help gratefully received.
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