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I don't agree with the following tip. I agree with Harton. I am English and was a teacher of English. What you suggest is very formal and rarely used in nowadays in spoken English. I believe that just as it is important to learn French as it is actually spoken, it is also important to learn English as it is actually spoken.
Whereas in English, you will need to use a subject pronoun after than (... than I (do), you (do), he/she (does)...), in French you will once again use the stress pronoun after que (... que moi, toi, lui/elle, nous, vous, eux/elles). You will also never repeat the verb (do/am/have) afterwards:
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!
And, if a "best-efforts translation" to English were possible, would "de" represent "late OF two hours", "late BY two hours", or "late SOME two hours"?
Cheers, Alec
1. "je ferais régulièrement du sport" --> I thought "régulièrement" would go at the end of the sentence, or at least the expression "faire du sport"? I remember this lesson saying that sometimes adverbs ending in -ment go at the beginning or end of a sentence? Position of French Adverbs - with compound tenses
2. I translated "Getting informed" as "se renseigner." What's the difference between this and "s'informer"?
Could someone please direct me to the correction board as per Céline's suggestion below?
I've looked everywhere but can't seem to find it.
1) Les enfants reviennent des États-Unis et de France ('des 'because US is plural and 'de' as France is singular I assume)
2) Les enfants reviennent de vacances. (Here is 'de' used because it follows reveinnent or because vacances is singular in French?)
3) Elle se souvient des vacances en Espagne. (What is the justification for the use of 'des' in sentence 3? Why is it not 'de' as in 2) above?)
the position of profondment
How can one know when to end a male word like pneu the plural of s or x?
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