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I just put réussir à un examen in one of your tests and you marked the "à" as wrong although I was always taught this was correct.  I have checked in both Collins dictionary and in the Harraps dictionary and they both say réussir à un examen.  Please could you explain this?

Hi, can you explain why "I ate all the cakes" is not a correct translation of 

According to the lesson of negative form using partitive  articles: du, de la, de l' and des all become de or d' (in front of a vowel or mute h) in negative sentences using ne...pas, ne...jamais, ne...plus.

How do I know when to use ne...pas,  ne...jamais or ne...plus in the negative form based on the affirmative sentence?

How does this translate?

Could someone explain how I can create sentences with this statement below? 

In French you can also use the expression faire plaisir à [quelqu'un] to say to please [someone], to make [someone] happy

Thank you very much !

Could someone explain how I can create sentences with this statement below? 

In French you can also use the expression faire plaisir à [quelqu'un] to say to please [someone], to make [someone] happy

Thank you very much !

Le lac, so The lake, not A lake

Merci pour tous les exemples, mais le rap "maison d'être" contient des prononciations qui diffèrent beaucoup du français standard. Je veux bien exposer les étudiants à des accents differents, mais dans ce cas, c'est exaggéré. 

I know il/elle are pronouns - which stands in for a noun. So, if you are referring to a specific noun, then you use the pronoun: "où est mon frère? Il est dans sa chambre."  However, "ce" is a demonstrative adjective. Maybe, c'est is an abbreviated way of saying "this thing/person is... So "C'est mon frère" is like saying "This (person) is my brother." I don't know if this way of thinking will work for all examples, but I hope I am on the right track. 

when the next word starts w a vowel, is there a specific reason why the s of the conjugated verb is not pronounced?