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Apparaître follows the same pattern as connaître for the passé composé, (aître -> u), so not an exception. See -  https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-rules-model-french/model-conna%C3%AEtre.html

EXCEPTIONS : 

I still don't understand why "les" is the answer but not "ses". Please explain, thanks!

Vous l'avez rencontre a une soiree - you met him at a party

Vous les avez rencontre a une soiree - you met them at a party

Il nous a rencontre a une soiree - he met us at a party

But the moment you talk about yourselves it becomes a reflexive verb, rather than just a special case of the pronoun matching the verb case?

Nous nous sommes rencontres a une soiree - we met (each other) at a party

There is a concealed difficulty in this lesson for English speakers who don't know how to congregate the irregular verb "hurt".  The examples provided are very good and demonstrate the problem, but i needed a good English grammar book to correctly identify the problem.

hurt       (v           pr))

hurts     (v           pr3)

hurt       (v           pt)

hurt       (v           pp)

How do you know which to use, between auquel and à laquelle? Is the first masculine and the second feminine?

The speaker clearly says "Université d'Harvard" but is this technically correct ? How would we know ?

Wikipedia refers to Université Harvard, and uses 'de Harvard' for lists of 'presidents of Harvard' etc. 

  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Harvard

Bab.la also shows 'de Harvard' for diplomas '(from )Harvard' etc and in a number of examples referring to Harvard University uses "Université de Harvard".    https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-french/harvard

Examples of all 3 are found on this page from linguee https://www.linguee.com/english-french/translation/harvard+university.html

The university is named after (Rev) John Harvard, so my first thought was that it would follow the same format as for instance "Institut Pasteur" and should just be Université Harvard, or at least be treated as h aspiré and be 'de Harvard'. Last on my list would have been d'Harvard. However it appears all are acceptable ? 

Bonjour, 

I was wondering in the examples above what the difference is between using en and dans  la in these sentences?

Je suis en classe

I'm in class 

Je suis dans la classe

I'm in the classe

Is it because the sentence has I'm in THE classe so you use dans + la? 

Also is there any exercises such as worksheets with this lesson or any other lessons for prepositions?

Thanks

Nicole