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I saw this translation in one of my exercises

Je tiens à ces boucles d'oreille comme à la prunelle de mes yeux.I love these earrings dearly.
Why wouldn't it be someting like "J'adore tellement ces boucles d'oreille?" 
I don't understand the verb tenir in this context

Here depuis serves as an adverb? Can I use the present l'indicatif to construct the sentence? Thanks.

Since the speaker is trying to sound like a ghost, the pronunciation suffers on this one. Just one glaring example - the last sentence, "c'est" sounds like "si".

The lesson says: (1) If the verb ends with a vowel, use -t-; (2) if the verb ends with a t or a d, don't use -t-. What if the verb ends with a consonant that is not t or d?

The boys cut out "des poissons," why do they stick "les" on their friends' backs instead of "en"? 

In reference to the rule which is explained at the end of the lesson after the examples, isn't there something extra going on in the reflexive verbs which follow the pattern of eler/ eter like 'se rappeler'? For example, we have je me rappelle in the present, but je me rappelais in the imperfect, so we don't just add 'ais' to the stem of the conjugation in the present in this instance, right? 

(Faire peur à = to scare [someone/something])

What are you trying to say? That you can use either one (auquel or a qui), there is no difference?

 I’m confused. The lesson states:

“To express lacking [something], you use:

As you're literally saying I lack of [something], you never use partitive articles (du, de l', de la, des) here; i.e., Je manque du sucre.”           

So why not “Je manque de sucre?” The answer directly contradicts the Green highlighted guidance.