French language Q&A Forum

The question in my lesson plan test was: "Il a vu Paul et Sam ? -Non, ________ ."

My answer, "Il n'a pas vu Paul et Sam." was marked wrong. And the correct answer given is: 

"Il n'a vu ni Paul ni Sam." "Has he seen Paul and Sam? -No, he hasn't seen Paul or Sam."

Wouldn't the more accurate English be: "No, he hasn't seen either Paul or Sam." ?

And, therefore "Il n'a pas vu Paul et Sam." would be the negation for "Il as vu Paul et Sam?"

Thank you for your explanation.

When saying "Vous habitez où?" Why isn't it pronounced as "abitezù" instead of "abite ù"

Shouldn't the past participle agree with the subject in this?

Des artistes extraordinaires sont nés

Quite often my written answer is marked wrong simply because I failed to insert a space before punctuation.  I am trying to train myself to add the space, but it does not come naturally for me when I write in English.  Why do you insert a space before certain punctuation marks, notably exclamation, colon and question mark?  For example:  This sentence !  and This list :  and This question ?

It seems you do not insert a space before other punctuation marks, such as period or comma, for example:  

Like this,  or Like that.

Why ?

Just wondering why it's 'en matinee', but 'dans la soiree?'

I'm continually confused about using des!

So, it's the plural of un/une (countable things). However it also seems to be used as a partitive article - as in the example "Tu veux des epinards?" (Do you want (some) spinach (uncountable thing)). Is epinards plural, and hence the use of des???

Any and all help very much appreciated!

Belinda