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Hunting through the comments, it appears there was a change mentioned 11 months ago, but Joseph's answer was not actually included and I wonder if the general grammar rule may have been deleted when the exception about Indicatif was added?

Celine's answer to John 3 years ago has some explanation of present tense vs. passé composé, but there is nothing like this in the actual lesson itself.

I stopped reading halfway through the many comments as it appears many other users have also previously felt the lesson did not have an adequate explanation...

Why is the sentence in passé composé rather than in imparfait? The act of saving has to happen over a period of time. It is not a one-time action.

To me, this should be translated as “My exams took place last week,” while the test results show “My exams took place in the last week,” which sounds strange in English. I'm really confused! 

There is really no explanation of how to distinguish when to use these properly.

Puis-je  écrire "Parmi ceux...." au lieu de "Entre ceux.." ? En anglais, si je me souviens bien, on dit "among" pour plus de deux personnes. Et encore, je ne parle pas toutes les deux langues comme ma langue maternelle.

Je me confuse sur cette exemple:  "il va manquer une chaise à ton oncle."   I get "there will be a chair missing" but how does "à ton oncle" (which I read as "to your uncle") compute as "your uncle will be missing a chair"?

It would be great to have more exercises like this.

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9 Les petits enfants ________ fatigués par le voyage.

The little children were tired by the journey.(HINT: Conjugate ''être'' in the compound past (Passé Composé))