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John M.C1Kwiziq community member
What is that?

I have returned to A0 as part of my revision programme and are still puzzled by the following-

What is the Pantheon? My answer was

Marked incorrect.

However I notice in 'Lawless French' (which I understand is 'related' to Kwiz)

Quel + être

Quel est … ? means "what is … ?"Quels sont … ? means "what are … ?"

Par exemple…

Quelle est la solution ? What’s the solution?Quels sont les cours les plus intéressants?

I apreciate the lesson is on Qu'est-ce que, but why is my answer wrong? What are the most interesting classes?

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Mary D.A2Kwiziq community member
Inversion of subject/verb or not? Quel parfum de glace tu préfères ?   why not préfères-tu ?? 

Quels bonbons tu as choisis ?   as-tu choisis??

Quel acteur voudrais-tu rencontrer ?

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Richard M.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
''Je n'ai pas mangé de viande depuis dix ans.'' means:

Answer given: I haven’t eaten any meat for ten years. Why wouldn’t the answer simply be “I haven’t eaten meat for ten years”? Thanks in advance for input.

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Adrian B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Superlatives with location

Why is it "la plus parlée *au* monde"? The relevant lesson says to use "de": Forming the superlative of French adjectives in complex cases

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Sandra D.C1Kwiziq community member
La négation

Whyis this phrase expressed with  negation? il ne peut pas accéder à son argent tant qu'il n'est pas revenu aux États-Unis et n'a pas prouvé son identité.

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Sherilyn P.B2Kwiziq community member
Why are the days of the week start with a Capital letter and then Sunday is spelt with a lower case.
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Jeffrey B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Answer Doesn't Match Text

In the third sentence, the second phrase in English to be translated is given in the exercise as "...the pronunciation is difficult...", without the adverb "very" being used before "difficult" , however the French translation in the exercise & in the final full text is given as "...la prononciation est très difficile..." instead of "...la prononciation est difficile...".

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eric d.C1Kwiziq community member
Why mark "nous sommes brossés" as almost correct?Nous ________ les cheveux.We brushed our hair(HINT: Conjugate "se brosser" (to brush) in the compound past (Passé Composé))nous sommes brossénous sommes brossés
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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Numbers and punctuation

Is it always incorrect to write "vingtième siècle" rather than "XXe siècle" ?

I get caught out by the punctuation in the listening exercises, partly because modern English writing has now dropped so many of the commas that we used to have, and partly because it’s difficult to know from the audio what punctuation is needed. A lesson on this would be useful.

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paul b.B2Kwiziq community member
plais or plait

your answer "ce qui me plait le plus dans ce métier"

should it not be "ce qui me plais le plus dans ce métier" ?

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