Expressing distance '(at) ... km from ...' = à ... de ... (prepositions)

Are you sure you spelled it correctly (kilomètres)?

Yes

Bonjour Marnie !

I've had a look at your Correction Board, and Chris's intuition was right: you forgot the accent on "kilometres", hence the Nearly Correct mark :)

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Bonne journée !

Bonjour Louise, I think your response is correct and this does seem to be a programming miscue. I am not aware of any grammar rule that requires to use the number (10) in lieu of spelling it out. Bonne chance. Ron

I was marked wrong when I spelled out dix minutes but it was because I misspelled Marseille. That was explained to me when I reported the issue.

And I wrote dix minuts, forgetting the final e of minutes, It seems to me that mispellings like that and Marseille spelled wrong should be yellow errors, not red.

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Mes parents habitent ________ .My parents live ten minutes from Marseille

Since it's written out in English, you'd expect to write it out in French.

Since it's written out in English, you'd expect that it should be written out in French.

Bonjour Bonnie !

I've had a look at your Correction Board, and the reason you were marked down is that you wrote "à dix minuts de Marseille" which was incorrect.
"à dix minutes de Marseille" as well as other alternatives are accepted as correct by the system :)

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Bonne journée !