Why en??

David P.B1Kwiziq community member

Why en??

La liberté d'expression est un droit fondamental mais il faut ________respecter les limites.


Why is the answer en? The phrase is not introduced by de 

Asked 5 hours ago
Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
David, 

without using the adverbial pronoun ‘ en ‘, the sentence you are referring to would read  

“ La liberté d'expression est un droit fondamental mais il faut respecter les limites de la liberté d'expression “ 

That is, ‘ en ‘ is replacing the prepositional phrase ‘ de la liberté d’expression ‘, giving the sentence ‘ La liberté d'expression est un droit fondamental mais il faut en respecter les limites. ‘

This question has been addressed previously but I can’t find the link on a general search presently.  

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/limite

David P. asked:

Why en??

La liberté d'expression est un droit fondamental mais il faut ________respecter les limites.


Why is the answer en? The phrase is not introduced by de 

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