Hello: I understand the rule being explained here and am pretty comfortable using it. But I'm struggling with the English explanation/translation in the title of the lesson, specifically the term "Cause for," as in "Pour (+être) allé = Cause for going/having gone" - can anyone help explain? I'm trying not to overthink it, but my inability to understand the principle being articulated here is now making me doubt my previous intuitive understanding of this construction, lol. Thanks in advance for any insights!

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G B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Verb and subject order

Which rule of grammar covers the word order for the sentence below?:

The hint given is «In French, invert the verb and subject “the…spirits that make the planters”

des alcools de palme artisanaux que fabriquent les planteurs

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Richard M.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Time inconsistency

When I write “Il est dix heures” as one of the accepted responses to a specific request to translate precisely ten o’ clock in the evening, it’s marked as incorrect. Yet, elsewhere, it’s stated as an acceptable response to a person who knows you are talking about the evening rather than the morning. So, it should be marked as correct along with the other two responses. In my opinion! :-)

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Monsieur P.A2KwizIQ community member

La vs lui

In the following example, I am struggling to understand why we must use la and not lui? To me, it sounds like the sentence requires an indirect object pronoun, because the question "What" is not answered in response to the "must", which is the verb in this sentence. I use the "what" test to determine if there is a direct object in the sentence. With this sentence, should I consider "what must they warn" as my question, or "what must they do". Apologies if my line of thought is completely skewed but it seems to work in most cases.

Does Julie know? We must warn her ,

- Julie est au courant ? Il faut lui prévenir,- Julie est au courant ? Il faut la prévenir,

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Sara A.A1KwizIQ community member

DOes it make a difference to the impression on the listener to alternatively use ou and dans lequel or is it just for knowledge?

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