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Paris K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

L'usage de dont vs selon laquelle

Je ne comprends pas comment la phrase, 'c'est la manière dont les Français cuisent leur viande', soit correcte.

Je pensais que 'dont' s'utilisait pour exprimer les propositions anglaises, 'about, of, etc'. Par exemple, dans la phrase 'la fille dont vous m'avez parlée hier'. Dans cet exemple je comprends l'usage parce que ça signifie la fille 'about whom' you spoke yesterday.

Mais dans le cas de, 'c'est la manière dont les Français cuisent leur viande', je ne vois pas le sens de 'about whom ni of', effectivement je ne vois aucune proposition après le verb 'cuisent', et c'est pour ça que je suis confus.

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Bianca S.C1Kwiziq community member

So is it with the passé compose or with the present? Confused :(

So the question was:

How would you say ''You haven't lived here long.'' ?

1. Tu n'as pas habité ici depuis longtemps.

2. Tu n'habites pas ici depuis longtemps.

3. Tu n'habitais pas ici depuis longtemps.

4. Tu ne vas pas habiter ici depuis longtemps.

So the instructions are that with negation depuis is in passe composé, so I picked the answer number 1, but in results this was wrong as they wanted present - answer number 2.

What gives?

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Donna B.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Same answer: one marked right, the other marked wrong

One question was: Je __ ai invité pour Thanksgiving.

The next was: Je __ ai appris que la France...

The answer given for the first was "je l'ai" and for the second was "je lui ai."

Why?

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Donna B.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Nos or Notre with On

So which one is it? The examples say to use nos or notre with on. I did exactly that in the test and got it wrong. It would be useful to know when to use one and when the other one with on.

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Forbasong C.A2Kwiziq community member

Painful throat because of cold or cough

Hi Ted I want to say I have a sore throat in French

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Julie L.A0Kwiziq community member

What changes a adverbial from behind the noun to in front?

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Karen B.C1Kwiziq community member

Excessive use of exclamation marks

Does anyone else find an over use of the exclamation marks ? I don’t take off marks if I don’t put in as many as given in the answers. Is this a particular French thing?

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paul b.A1Kwiziq community member

Position of Derniere and meaning

Last time he came, he didn't behave himself.fois dernièredernière foisprochaine foisfois prochaine
when I did this quiz I was marked incorrect when I chose "fois derniere"
but the lesson says I'm right. Dernier fois means last time as in "final time"?

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Aashpreet K.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Tu parles moins que je ne le pensais.

Why is pas not used in this example? "...je ne le pensais pas"? What is the concept/rule that I'm missing here?

Tu parles moins que je ne le pensais.

Source - https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/glossary/grammatical-form/le-comparatif-comparative