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J'utilise ces tomates. ________ les dernières.
Why is it "ce sont" rather than "elles sont." It sounds like we are speaking about specific tomatoes, hences "elles." I am using these tomatoes. They are the last ones. These specific ones right here that we are both looking at.
Thanks!
The lesson to explain when to use le subjontif or l'indicatif doesn't, in plain language explain the trigger to cause one to use either tense. It needs to more deeply describe when and why each tense is chosen. This, of course, is my opinion as a student.
I thought it was "de grosse douleur" - singular - and can't think of any way of being able to hear whether it was singular or plurial. Does it have to be plural because the gums are plural? In English we could say "pain in my gums", but in French perhaps it's necessary to say "pains in my gums"? Or would "ce qui me causait de grosse douleur dans les gencives" still be correct?
[By the way - there's a typo in the full text - "genvices" for "gencives"...]
After a listening or writing practice, I check the Q&A. Sometimes there is a discussion that I find I want to revisit later. How can I get to the Q&A for a lesson without re-doing the lesson? Also, how can I find questions I have previously posted?
I wrote j’irai but Kwizbot said the answer is je vais aller
To my knowledge, 'le plus que parfait' is used to indicate actions before a (supposedly) principal action, denoted in passe compose, in the past. I have had a hard time with what this principal action here.
Ce film, qu'il avait réalisé, écrit et produit, est un chef-d'œuvre absolu
Je n'avais pas entendu parler de ce film avant
Il a aussi réalisé la série à succès Big Little Lies
I didn't understand the justification for the tenses used here. If someone can help me with this, I would deeply appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
I really wish I could take a 10 - 15 question quiz on some of these lessons, like this one. I often feel like two questions is not enough to cement or really learn some of these.
I would have expected devoir to be used here instead of avoir. Could someone clarify? Maybe I'm not understanding the tenses clearly. Thanks!
I had written this as plural: "différentes combinaisions lors des combats", but on listening again, what was said before it was clearly "à" rather than "aux", so I changed it to singular: "à différente combinaision lors de combats".
Since it is actually plural - which certainly makes more sense! - I cannot understand why it isn't "aux différentes combinaisions" ?
I've done this exercise twice. on the second attempt it said i got 0 correct when i got most of them correct.
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