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In the phrase, "curieuses boîtes", how do you know to place curieuses before the noun.
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Why are we adding de in front of mieux in the sentence il n’y a rien de mieux que d’’ouvrir.....
« Combien d’enfants avez-vous? »
Can’t figure out why this is right. Enfants is plural.
Wouldn’t you say « J’ai des enfants. »
"Avez-vous ton crayon?" This sentence here mixes a formal (or plural) pronoun with a familiar possessive adjective, which doesn't feel correct. Could I get confirmation that "ton, ta, tes" works for whomever is directly spoken to?
One of the translations in the quiz was 'Everybody wants to do their best'. This may be in common usage now but correctly, I think, it should be 'his/her' best. Here 'everybody' is singular hence the singular verb 'wants', so the pronoun needs to correspond to the noun as well as the verb.
"Descendre de" rule
This may have a simple answer, but if 'de' becomes du or des when followed by le or les, why would the correct response on the quiz be: Elle descend de l'avion rather than Elle descend du l'avion?
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