French language Q&A Forum

In the A1 writing challenge "Learning the guitar" the question

"because I find that it's a soothing instrument"

suggests the answer

"car je trouve cet instrument apaisant."

which I can see is very elegant but why is my answer incorrect:

"car je la trouve d'être un instrument apaisant"

I can find other examples on the web of similar usage such this:

"...que nous avons trouvé d'être un trait distinctif..."

two issues:

#1: question was: “What is the French number ‘14,052’ in English?”  This question should read “What is the ENGLISH number ‘14,052’ in FRENCH?”  A lot of your number questions are written back to front.

2nd issue:  I answered ‘14 052’ but it was marked wrong and the less common ‘14.052’ was given as the correct answer.  But my answer is correct...?

où on a degouté des specialities lyonnaises/ où on dégoutait des specialities lyonnaises (where we enjoyed Lyonnaise specialities)

I don't understand why this can't be in the imparfait as there's no end time. Is it passé composé because it is NOW finished?  It seems like this is something that happened over a period of time in the past, not quickly, so I used imparfait.

Cannot "même si" be equally followed l'imparfait del'ndicatif as in:

Même s'il me le disait, je ne le croirais pas.

The lesson - and the quizzes based on it - use the grave accent for all 6 endings in this tense.

But all of the online conjugators that I have checked with use the acute accent.

As do all of the exmples in context on the web.

In the C1 writing challenge "A bad matchmaker" the only word accepted for "matchmaker" is "entremetteurs".

Shouldn't "marieurs" be also accepted?

Is the reason, perhaps, that the first is a word for amateurs, as in the story, while second is a word for a professional?