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1 or 2 is correct ?

1. dès que je l'ai réglé   /   2. dès que je l'aie réglé

3 or 4 or 5 is correct ?

3. parler au traiteur   /   4.  parler à traiteur   / 5.  parler avec traiteur

Thanks

Nellie

how will i know where to use etre and where to use avoir?

I have put a few difficult lessons in my notebook, but I've rarely tested them. I now see that as a premium member I can have multiple notebooks, but I'm not sure of the benefit. So I'd like to know from users: how do you make use of notebooks in your studies? Do you find it useful to use multiple notebooks? If so, how do you divide your notebooks?

Why isn’t the answer dans Le?

Me suis__________________ cours de danse 

I noted in the quick lesson that it should be dans la if it is specific and en if it is general. Cours de danse seems specific, but I got the answer wrong. 

Selon moi j'étudie depuis 2 mois en France = I have been studying in France for 2 months

J'ai étudié pendant 2 mois en France = I have studied in France for 2 months.

Est-ce que c'est faux pourriez-vous m'aider 

In the lesson about dimensions, you say "Note that in this case the adjectives haut/long/large/profond agree in gender and number with the subject they refer to." 

But you only give a gender agreement example for "profond". Do "haut" or "long " or "large" change spelling with gender?

Why aurait and not ferait, after all, elle fait froid.

when is une peinture un tableau?

Advised by Cecile: "But the construction you suggest ending with a pronoun might be used by a very young French child but isn't correct French."

 I have never seen it so pointedly stated anywhere. Seems to me once you 'learn' that faux pas you are halfway through the struggles of using pronouns....where to put them.

I find this advice so clarifying. I may be making too much of a big deal abut it...but it hit me like a lightbulb.

Do you think, modified a little,  it is advisable to adopt as  rote? Would it hold up universally enough. 

Do not put your object pronouns at the end of a sentence (after the verb) UNLESS it is the STRESS VERSION OF THE PRONOUN. 

"Halloween" est une fete americaine (meme si certains commencent a` l'adopter dans des endroits comme Paris ou` bcp d'americains vivent.  Ca serait interessant de citer les fetes traditionnelles d'automne en France/ses regions ou les fetes dans des pays francophones, n'est-ce pas?  Merci.