French language Q&A Forum

I don't mark myself down for punctuation, but of course I still want to get it right. And I have a terrible tendency to use capital letters for roads etc the english way - i.e. "Rue de Quelque chose", "Place Quelque Chose" only to find that it should be "rue de Quelque Chose", "place Quelque chose" etc.
So I was expecting "le château de Versailles".  Mais non ! 

Is there any logic in this, or is it basically something that a native speaker just knows intuitively ?

Hi,

So my question is when going over this lesson. Is it safe to say that to think of using il/elle est  to think of it as possession of ownership like in English? 

Thanks

Nicole

I've been reading through the lesson and discussion comments to try to understand some of the subtle differences.

In English, if I go to a bakery and ask for "half a baguette", I'm asking them to take a full-size baguette and cut it in half. If I want a small but uncut baguette, I'd have to ask for "a half-size baguette" or a "mini-baguette".

I think the comments are saying that in French, "une demi-baguette" can mean either an uncut half-size baguette or half of a full-size baguette. Is that correct?

Thanks!