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Instead of “Après s'être levé, William alla prendre sa douche” would it be correct to use the passé composé instead of the passé simple? 

“Après s'être levé, William est allé prendre sa douche”.

Merci

If I do not read or write in french does it mean I do not have to learn the Passe Simple  :)

A stroke certainly is 'un AVC', but as the order of initials indicates 'un AVC' cannot be 'un accident cardio-vasculaire'; it is 'un accident vasculaire crérébral'

Hello, 

Any tricks to guess the gender? Like for example, I heard somewhere that about 75% of the time nouns ending with 'e' will be of feminine gender. 

Merci d'advance! :)

Is it correct to say 'Il fallait qu'il annule son vacance' or should the 'annule' also be in the past tense? Merci.

You use "il/elle" for opinions and in specifying a particular item. But say "C'est une jolie robe."  

I don't get it.

How is Il fait bon aujourd'hui "It is warm" as your test implies?  Should it not be "Il fait chaud"?  I would think the translation should have been correct as "It is nice"  today for Il fait bon aujourd'hui.

I wrote, "il est quatre heures de l'après-midi." But the answer was marked wrong and used the 24 hr framework instead. I understand the answer it gave, but I just to make sure that my answer was also acceptable. 

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