French language Q&A Forum

In the translation of "Before I applied for my current position...", you used postuler.   Is "faire une demande de" not a possibility ?

Why is d’après being used for after I the sentence d’après le célèbre écrivain…. Instead of après……

Après - After 

D’après- According to

 How does d’après fit here?

A woman is speaking, so why is there no agreement, i.e. faite, in this use of the reflexive se faire?

Replace les noms par les pronouns

I question why "pres" was marked incorrect in this exercise. As I understand it, "à côté de" means exactly next to, whereas in placing a vase I would be putting it near the bed, probably on a bedside table or similar, so more correctly it would be "pres du lit"? 

I understand that une soirée indicates the duration of the evening, while un soir indicates the general time of day, but given this is a Level 1 quiz, is that not a bit advanced for this level? As far as I recall the only context given in Level one for "une soirée" was for an evening function or party. I was marked wrong for using choisissez rather than choisis, presumably because choisissez is too advanced for this level?

Questions including sentenses like "This bedroom is grey. - Yes, it's grey here."  make absolutley no sense to me.

What is "Yes, it's grey here" referring to? The weather, or a completely different bedroom perhaps. 

As I have no idea, I have to quess and and so keep getting the answer wrong.

I would be grateful if you could tell me what the question means by using different words.