I still don't understand whey, "Qu'est-ce que le fois gras," Is not an acceptable way of saying "What is?" QUE (what) est-ce (is it) le fois gras.
Why is it any less acceptable than "Qu'est-ce que c'est que" The explanations just don't make sense to me. Could you clarify?
Joanne, apart from the fact that it's "le foie gras", not "le fois gras", your sentence is a correct option.
I was marked "Nearly correct" for "Qu'est-ce que" in response to "___ un gendarme ?" Yet this form is clearly listed as an option in the lesson ... Qu'est-ce que + [chose] : *** Never mind ... just realized that I missed the elision w/ "que un" ***. The "correct" answer was a different form, so I didn't realize it.
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