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THe subjunctive form is "nous ne detestions pas" yet in your exercise you have "nous ne detestons pas" ??
It's a pity that once we submit our responses to kwizes that are sent to us by email, we don't get to know where we made mistakes. Perhaps may I suggest that the incorrect answer be indicated in bold red colour or underlined to identity it?
For example,
My score for the Saint Patrick's Day kwiz was 13 correct and 1 incorrect. I did it twice but I think I got the same error? Can you tell me where my mistake was?
My answers are below:
Ma grand-mère est irlandaise, donc dans ma famille on célèbre la Saint-Patrick. Le 17 mars, on accroche le drapeau vert-blanc-orange à la porte, et on colle des petits trèfles irlandaises sur les fenêtres.
Après avoir mangé le ragoût traditionnel de ma grand-mère, ma sœur et moi rejoignons nos amis pour faire la tournée des bars. Je mets mon chapeau haut-de-forme et mon tee shirt préféré avec un farfadet à cheval sur un arc-en-ciel, et ma sœur porte une magnifique fausse barbe rousse et a même un petit sac à main en forme de marmite d'or!
Toute la nuit, on boit de la bière verte en dansant des gigues endiablées !
Joyeuse Saint-Patrick à toutes et à tous !
Should it not be: "et je vais souvent promenader dans le jardin."
rather than: "et je fais souvent des promenades dans le jardin." given as correct?
Il y a des fleurs partout.
Négation : il n'y a de fleurs nulle part.
Ou - il n'y a pas de fleurs nulle part.
Aussi
Je fais du jogging. Négation : je ne fais pas de jogging ou je ne fais pas du jogging.
Dans cette phrase, est-ce que du est articles partitives ou contractés ?
Je pense que le mot critrouille est "pumpkin" en francais. je n'ai entendu pas de potirons?
In this example the French is in Le Subjonctif Présent but the English translation is in the past tense (present tense would be "unless you are lying to me"). Why is the French not "Je te crois à moins que tu ne m'aies eu menti"?
B1 ???
You've got to be kidding! (Tu plaisant!)
This is hugely faster than an B1 student could ever contemplate.
Without the translation, I wouldn't have had a ghost of a chance of understanding this.
I think faire faire and se faire + infinitif are quite hard for English speakers to get their heads round. Is there a reason that only one of the examples is in the present tense? Even that one is ambiguous (ils se font couper les cheveux - could be they’re getting their hair cut as we speak or are just about to).
Why is fut used in the above, rather than était.To the best of my knowledge, we have not been introduced to the Historic?
Couple of queries:-
In the sentence ' As I grew up, it was her melancholy ...' the advice is to use c'est. Why not c'était?
and,
In the sentence 'Barbara, as you used to sing (it) so perfectly, our most beautiful love story will always be you., the 'it' refers to the 'love story' which is feminine so 'comme tu le chantais' should be 'la'?
Thanks
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