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I am curious about the grammatical function of "de" in a sentence such as the following:
"Je ne prends pas de bonnes résolutions."
Thank you!
why is verb avons montrés not avons montré?
Why do you say mangées and not mangé, since it's "Anne a mangé"?
Thanks in advance:)
During the dictation, I have noticed that before I can give myself a grade, 1 thru 5, the bar goes to the next sentence thereby it seems as though I did not respond to the question, which deminishes my score
An Englishman (as distinct from an American) would say "five hundred AND thirty".
Please direct me to "The correction board if appropriate)
When I wrote "à vélo" I received a correction that I should have written "en vélo." However, I was under the impression that both "en vélo" or "à vélo" are acceptable (see: À/en + [means of transportation] (French Prepositions)). Was this an error or is there a reason that "à vélo" is not acceptable here?
Thanks!
takes a foreign movie and fails to give the proper credit to the original.
There was no mention that I remember during the Oscars that this film was a Franco-Belgian production.
Hollywood has a long history of this failure to recognize the original movies.
Qu'est-ce que "u jeu de société"?
It is my observation that a Frenchman will do almost anything to avoid double objective pronouns - for fear of making mistakes and because they sound fussy, awkward, and a bit snobbish. As they are used less and less frequently, the "correct" order is being lost even to the French. I have been encouraged by my teachers to reformulate to avoid this mare's nest. So
Je lui ai donné cela plutôt que je le lui ai donné.
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