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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Questionable English?Will you swing by her place ? by the neck or au Tarzan. That is not standard English for me even though I get the gist.

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Gabriel B.C1Kwiziq community member

Inversion with n'est-ce pas

Bonjour, j'ai répondu à une question où je devais transformer l'affirmation suivante "Marie vient demain" en une question en utilisant ''n'est-ce pas ?". Ma réponse "Marie vient-elle demain, n'est-ce pas ?" a été jugée fausse, mais je n'ai pas compris pourquoi je ne peux pas utiliser l'inversion dans ce cas. Je vous remercie d'avance!

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Bill C.C1Kwiziq community member

Clarifying the lesson

The order of verbs in the headline, participles in the first line of text, and the subsequent examples are in different orders. It would be helpful to order each list the same.

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Noor B.A0Kwiziq community member

La maison des Jackson est sur la gauche.

hello madam/sir,

I have a question why here they used 'des' instead of 'de'? As we use des for plural, but here nothing is plural.

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Kathleen P.C1Kwiziq community member

infos versus nouvelles

All through the piece "news" is translated as "infos" except in the last sentence when it is "nouvelles". Any special reason for this, beyond some idiosyncrasy of language?

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Why is gagner wrong

Tu ________ le premier prix avec ton costume de Jack Sparrow.

What is wrong with "as gagné" rather than "as eu"?

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Mélanie joue plus que Karine aux cartes.

Mélanie joue plus que Karine aux cartes. which is marked wrong seems to me to be just an inversion of Melanie joue aux cartes plus que Karine which is correct. Is this just one of those things the French dont do, or is there an underlying reason why the first version is wrong, please?

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Trisha N.A0Kwiziq community member

how do you say the amount of money in french

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

En train de dormir or endormis?What would be the best way to say "I knocked at the door, but you were sleeping."?

Would était endormis bé acceptable here?

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Rebecca L.C1Kwiziq community member