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Thanks Céline for yet another well thought out exercise. I really appreciate the rich, diversified vocabulary with so many roots that are common to similar English words. The recognition that approximately 40% of French words are the same or almost the same has allowed me to expand my French vocabulary. There are at least a dozen examples in this story. Sometimes, I just guess by constructing an unknown French word from an English word. It mostly works! Best wishes.
Hello,
This lesson, on 'san que (+ ne explétif) + the subjunctive mood', states that the use of the 'ne' is optional in modern spoken French. Additionally, it is omitted when the main verb is used with a negation. Unsurprisingly, the lesson teaches with examples using 'ne'.
Yet, in your test I was marked wrong for doing so. Specifically, the question was to complete a sentence, which I submitted as:
"Tu as fait tout ça sans que ne Neve soit au courant".
Yet the correct answer is shown without the 'ne'.
Have I misunderstood something here?
Thanks in advance,
D
"Tu as fait tout ça sans que ne Neve soit au courant"
I was never good at grammar so it would be helpful if the lessons had a link to the very basics. Like in this lesson, a link to tell a poor grammarian what in heck is the subjuntive ??
Why isn`t the statement 'Je sors de Narbonne en ce moment-même.' correct? It seems to be one of the special cases where 'sortir de' can be used when leaving a city (only time). According to Wikepedia Narbonne is a town in France. The correct answers used partir and quitter which made sense to me but this 3rd sentence also seemed correct.
Appreciate your comments. Thanks.
The correct answer is given as "dernieres decennies." I was always taught that when dernieres precedes the noun, it means "final." Derniere comes after the noun to mean "recent" or "preceding."
J'ai appris beaucoup de cet exercise. Pourquoi il n'y a pas le mot "pas" dans la phrase .....qu'ils ne soient nés en captivité...? Merci.
What is the difference between m’appelle and s’appelle? When is it appropriate to use each version?
The lesson said that y replaces [à+ thing], and that an indirect pronoun replaces [à + person].
The question was "Il pense à sa famille. Elle....pense aussi." 'Famille' is people, so why is the answer given as 'y' and not 'leur'?
Is there a lesson or could you please explain the difference between enfin, à la fin, au final, finalement, etc? Thanks.
It kept cutting at various parts for me. I had to replace portions of the audio over and over again in order to hear the entire portion. For example, for the first sentence I would almost never hear "Au Luxembourg" so I was confused by the hint. Sometimes I only heard the very last word out of the entire sentence
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