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I am still trying to figure out when to use "de" vs du or de la. In the sentence "qui a servi de résidence papal....." Why is it not "de la" as this seems to be a very specific thing and not a general category.

Thanks in advance

I don't understand this particular line:

The context in which you could use sortir de [ville] to express to leave [city] is very specific in French (note that it doesn't apply to countries,states,regions etc). It would only refer to an action in progress

Does this mean you can't use sortir de [ville] in future/past tense (Je sortirai de Paris), but you CAN use it in other tenses with countries, states, regions, etc?

Or does this mean you cannot use it with countries, states, regions...and you can only use it with cities if it's an action in progress?

Hey, I was reading the following explanation of this topic, in the example at the end, should not be 

deux-cent-trente-cinq

instead of

deux-cents-trente-cinq?

How does the scoring system work? I got several sentences right without any corrections and scored 0 out of 70.

Another exercise with lots of corrections, I got 30. It doesn't make any sense. Or shouldn't we pay attention to the scores?

Please explain why in this exercise the present subjunctive is used rather than the perfect subjunctive in the sentence 'Il a fallu qu'elle reste suspendue dans les airs plusieurs heures avant que les secours ne réussissent à la secourir.'  

So, the first verb aller conjugates as normal, but the second verb does not conjugate, but remains in its original form?

Bonjour, in the first example given,

J'habite à Paris depuis cinq ans, et ça me plaît toujours !

Translation: I've lived in Paris for five years, and I still love it!

Shouldn't it be "encore", since it means "still"?

bonjour à tous, J'habite à Cairo en Egypt  

Où habitez vous?

Vous habitez où?