French language Q&A Forum

Way back in the dim, distant past when I first started learning French, I think I remember being told that to accept an offer, you say "s'il vous plaît" and to decline, you use 'merci". 

Eg.: Voulez-vous un verre de vin? Oui, s'il vous plaît./ Non, merci. 

I think we also learnt that if you simply replied "merci", it would be understood as declining the offer.

Is this correct?

I notice the omission of any article to go with jeux in the phrase 'l'opportunité d'essayer différents jeux'. Is this something to do with the word différents? For example, if there were no adjective, you would surely say 'l'opportunité d'essayer des jeux'...?

In “Et il arrive trop souvent que les enclos soient trop étroits pour leurs occupants.” What triggers the subjunctive? Should I consider “il arrive que” to trigger it as a general rule?

I don't understand the grammar of parmi lesquels choisir in this sentence. could anyone help to explain? thanks. 

Bonjour! I have two questions related to the first sentence of this exercise. Firstly, why does the first part of the sentence translate to 'Lille is less than two hours away by train' when the original sentence to translate was 'Lille is less than a couple hours away' (i.e. no specific duration). Additionally, why do we use 'ce qui en fait' instead of 'ce que le fait'? Merci beaucoup! 

We have “Non, désolée, je ne peux pas…”. 

Do we get the female version because the speaker is female and it’s really an abbr. of “Je suis désolée”? If the speaker was a man would we get “Non, désolé, je ne peux pas…”?

What is the rule for using the pesky little accent circumflex with possessive plurals-- adjectives and pronouns (notre and votre)? Used only with pronouns but not adjectives? Is that right? 

In “dont les noms sont tout aussi appétissants”, why doesn’t “tout” agree with the subject (“les noms”)? I was expecting to see “tous”.