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Can someone please clarify why the tenses jump from imperfect to present in the final sentence? Thanks!
Pourquoi dit-on "c'est un charmant jeune homme" au lieu de "il est un charmant jeune homme" ?
When/why do we use article définis before the Auxiliary?
I am very confused:
Ex: After YOU visited the city, YOU… ( same subject). Why is it translated by: « après que vous avez visité la ville, vous… instead of « après avoir visité la ville, vous… ». Merci de me répondre.
Can you have "je courrai sur le tapis roulant pour une demie heure" because its the future tense?
So I translated "un proffeseur" to be "a teacher" and it was incorrect, with it saying I should have translated "one teacher". The accompanying grammar lesson only has information on the indefinite article (which I was using). What's going on?
Sorry to rehash this, but I find "follows the opposite pattern" confusing, as it really only applies to the use of avoir + demeuré, which is an intransitive use. Surely être demeuré remains (!) intransitive too, as it’s a state-of-being verb with no object?
dont la renommée rayonne encore:
whose reKnown still shines → whose renown still shines
I don't understand why in this lesson the example is given i.e. the ez is dropped from the verb
-Donne-moi les fleurs!
-Give me the flowers!
However, I have been marked as incorrect by doing what seems to be the exact same thing.
Make this statement into an order : "Vous me donnez les fleurs": ________ les fleurs!imperative
· Donnez-moi RIGHT
· Donne-moi WRONG
Is this a mistake on your part or am I missing something here?
The clues are very confusing. Why write U.S. right away as a clue. I thought that was what the interlocutor actually said. So although I wrote tout de suite initially I corrected it given the clue.
Johnny
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