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Can anybody explain why this is wrong?.. I can see pour as an alternative but why is pendant wrong here as it is, surely, expressing a duration.
Par exemple, la semaine prochaine, pendant Pâques, nous ferons une chasse aux œufs en français !
Giving "pour" as correct.
why is it feminine in this case?
why can't I say c'etais la coup de foudre instead of c'a ete?
Why isn't the question above inverted? Is it specific to the usage of "que"?
Dear Aurélie,
These writing exercises are a true exercise in humility. I test in the 90's for C1 grammar but I consistently fail (often get less than 50%) in the writing exercises. It took me over a year to accept this - I always would find my performance very disappointing and avoided the exercises (tip to others: don't avoid. They will improve your French, painfully and slowly in my case). The writing exercises are excellent and introduce a wide variety of expressions and of contexts, but perhaps students should be forewarned that one's grammar level on Kwiziq will be higher than one's performance on the translation/writing exercises.
Are these sentences structured in a way that is considered more "French"? Because if I were saying them in English I wouldn't often start the example sentences with "By the time...", I would flip the clauses. Is that it "the French way" to start sentences with "le temps que"?
Ex. Il avait déjà bu une bouteille entière le temps que je finisse de manger.
In a quiz my answer to "You [formal] are cold" was "Vous êtes froid" but it was marked wrong with the correct answer supposed to be Vous avez froid. Contradictions the lesson entirely !
is pire only for adjectives and not for adverbs? eg is it correct to say "je danse le plus mal", but wrong to say "je danse le pire"? thanks!
Why isn't it 'depouillement des votes'?
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