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"The main difference with qu'est-ce que is that this alternative form is never followed by the inverted form when using subject pronouns: " To reword, does this mean that 'qu'est-ce que' cannot be followed by an inversion?
Bonjour,
Shouldn't the phrase "meme si je sais que c'est le repas le plus important de la journee" be "meme si je sais qu'il est le repas le plus important de la journee" because we are referring to something specific? (breakfast)
Merci.
Bonjour,
Je voudrais poser une question à propos de conjugaison, particulièrement avec être. Dans les cas où on a veut exprimer deux sujets en une seule phrase pour le même verbe, par exemple deux sujets séparés par une virgule, quel sujet détermine la forme verbale à utiliser ? Par exemple, si je veux exprimer « tout le monde, surtout les jeunes,… » est-ce qu’on utiliserait « sont » après « les jeunes ? Et quel est la règle qui détermine la bonne forme ? Merci d’avance et j’espère que j’ai utilisé la bonne grammaire dans ces phrases, j’accueille les conseils.
I wrote 'les chauves-souris' . Your text was 'les chauve-souris'. After completion of the dictee, I checked dictionaries which add s to chauve in the plural form. ??
In the explannation above, it says:
"To express lacking [something], you will use manquer de or d' + [thing].
You do not need to use the partitive articles (du, de l', de la, des) here, just as you wouldn't say I lack thesugar but simply I lack sugar:"
It's a bit confusing because then all the examples use "de". You really have to your know your grammatical terms! I wonder if it would be clearer to say:
"You do not need to use the definite articles (le, l', la, les) here".
Just a thought.
Tôt is wrong to say you are early today? Why?
I noticed that for the two verbs that have to do with thoughts croire and savoir, the example phrases are negated. Are you able to use these verbs in positive sentences with passé composé or is it more appropriate to use the imparfait since it’s hard to know how long and how many times something was thought or believed?
in this context, if you were speaking of yourself and your partner, would you use 'on'? I thought that on was used as a more general term as we can use 'one' in English.
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