French language Q&A Forum

"Ils sont en forme de crânes." 
Why is it not, "Ils sont en forme des crânes."  IOW why is the partitive singular de for the plural crânes ?

Est-ce que c'est necessaire pour repèter "dois" apres "dernière"?  C'est une structure parallel in cui la premiere "fois" est assume.  Comme en anglais:. It was the first time, but will probably be the last.  Sans "fois" encore.  Merci beaucoup.

I've heard this as a song title, but all of the examples above are sentences with auxiliary verbs, so is this correct French?

Seeking clarification on Maartens answer to Randa.  The link provided, indicated that 'toujours' could be in either tense. I felt the imparfait was indicated as the action "loving" is ongoing and not finished.   Would 'love' to read your response/s.

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.  

One of the things that continues to confuse me is when to use à , sur, dans when working with dates ( dans l’après midi - ) , sur La  Canebière. Etc because sometimes they use au, à la  and they are correcting me . Is there a lesson I can review to clarify this?

Why do we use the past participle "occupés" after "semblaient" in the third sentence. Why isn't it in the infinitive "occuper"?

Hello, how is the word ‘fence’ spelt in French? I wrote clôture and was marked wrong.

Cheers :)