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In the passage, " ... and Lisa fills the washer dryer.", you should say that Lisa fills the dryer. A washer-dryer is usually a stackable set of machines with the washer on bottom and the dryer on top, although it can also be one integrated machine. In this exercise, Lisa is clearly loading the dryer. We would only say that she is loading the washer dryer if she is loading both machines.
In the first sentence, "Depuis que je suis petite fille, j'ai toujours adoré m'asseoir" why is the first half in present tense, and the second half passé composé?
Also, for the sentence, "les gracieuses ballerines qui se produisaient à l'Opéra," is "jouer" not an acceptable translation for perform?
something that i have thought for a long time but why can we not have an audio button to play the whole text without all the breaks?
In this sentence why is it not 'était fournie', to agree with 'une paire'?:
une paire de boules Quiès étaient fournies
I got a quiz question from the "a besoin de" lesson:
Cette année, Michaël ________ perdre du poids.
I was using "doit" here, but the correct was "a besoin de"
I couldn't find a full explanation why the second one is correct but the first one not.
Does the meaning change in this case (I could imagine that doit would be closer linked to a real need, e.g from a medical perspective, while besoin would be more linked to his wish to lose weight, but no idea if that's the case).
tu as fait decorer is clearly being done for the subject, but as its not reflexive I assumed they did the decorating themselves?
I'm being very picky with the punctuation here (but then again the little robot is often very picky about my punctuation, especially in the dictations haha). In the first sentence there should be a comma (and not a full-stop) in between "un petit déjeuner différent" and "ce qui peut rendre les matins un peu compliqués". (The corresponding English sentence did have the comma here.)
I am finding it too difficult to learn the passé simple and the subjunctive at the same time. Can I drop the passé simple for the time being?
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