This lesson is more confusing than it needs to be.You state there are two different structures involved here. In fact there are four:
1. "rappeler + person one's reminded of + à + person being reminded" ;
2 "me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur + rappeler + person one is reminded of " ;
3 "rappeler + à + person being reminded + de + [infinitif]";
4 "me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur + rappeler + de + [infinitif] "
Could this not be split into two lessons referring to A - 1 and 2, then B - 3 and 4? That would give struggling students the opportunity to crack each structure individually. As it stands, one has to hold and identify four structures simultaneously.
Or am I missing something? Is there a hidden logic that I have failed to spot?
I thought this was "je recommanderais" - "which I would recommend" - rather than "which I will recommend".
Two questions:
1) In this context, would the French always say "I will recommend" rather than " I would recommend"?
2) If not, is there any way of detecting the difference, aurally, between first person in the future and in the conditional ?
Why the infinitive? How does this work?
The theory says these are interchangeable yet I used malgré and was marked wrong
I was also thrown by this sentence because at first sight it contains the phrase "bien entendu". I guess the "bien" is qualifying "j’ai entendu parler", but does it mean something more than just "J'avais entendu parler de ce nouveau poste" ?
What is wrong with saying "j’ai trouvé le livre d'enfants"?
How can "Ils partent leur travail à 17 h" be wrong and only "Ils quittent leur travail à 17 h" be right? I don't see a specific rule as this type of question was used for both parter and quitter.
You state there are two different structures involved here. In fact there are four:
1. "rappeler + person one's reminded of + à + person being reminded" ;
2 "me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur + rappeler + person one is reminded of " ;
3 "rappeler + à + person being reminded + de + [infinitif]";
4 "me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur + rappeler + de + [infinitif] "
Could this not be split into two lessons referring to A - 1 and 2, then B - 3 and 4? That would give struggling students the opportunity to crack each structure individually. As it stands, one has to hold and identify four structures simultaneously.
Or am I missing something? Is there a hidden logic that I have failed to spot?
I was surprised by the phrase “ Ce que j’aime le plus avec Albertville “ Is it equally correct to say, “ Ce que j’aime le plus à Albertville “?
Hello, I have these 2 lessons coming up at the same time "How to use 'avoir l'habitude de' in French" to express a habit in current or past times and "Expressing past habits or repeated actions with the imperfect tense" - how do I know which one to use (ie. just the imperfect tense or the expression avoir l'habitude)? When I go through the test at the end of my 10 lessons I don't know which one is the answer they're looking for.
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