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I think there may be a problem on your end here with the technology. It has been very difficult to advance to the next sentence in the dictation, as it seems the system is "stuck." Please look into this matter. Thank you.
Why is it incorrect to write “à deux heures de” rather than “à 2 h de?”
Following on from my question about queue and line.. if I recognise the problem and simply do not answer the question.. it keeps coming up time and again as the first question in a Kwiz.. am thinking it would be easy enough to create a rule that if somebody did not answer a question three times in a row it was highly likely that they were ignoring the question and Kwizbot should stop asking it.. at least for a week.
You define L'imparfait as being about things that happened repeatedly in the past or past habits. Yet "You had eaten cereal this morning" is neither a repeated action nor a past habits, yet is expressed in L'imparfait... "tu avais mangé des céréales ce matin"? Sounds more like your definition of le passé composé - a single event in a defined timeframe. I get that the grammar is correct. What I'm questioning is your definitions.
It might be grammatically correct but it’s kinda creepy! Kwiziq has to cater for all tastes I suppose.
De plus, c’est petit et aussi c'est à pouvoir être utilisé en cas d’urgence.
De plus, c’est petit et aussi c'est peut être utilisé en cas d’urgence.
De plus, c’est petit et aussi c'est pouvoir être utilisé en cas d’urgence.
All of this is in the present (with the exception of one other passe compose (a dish that i've tasted) & one subjunctive). Why is the sentence "I really feel like I am travelling to the Roaring Twenties" translated using passe compose?
My first thought was that the narrator in this sentence moved into a memory, hence the past--that is, she once HAD that impression when in Paris. But, the same could be said for other sentences: "What I like above all, (it) is the relaxed atmosphere . . " It seems all of these sentences relate an ongoing feeling or attitude toward La brasserie La Coupole, so I don't understand why the passe compose is used in this sentence.
In each of the above sentence,
future time is indicated using - ce soir, dans duex secondes, tout de suite, plus tard, à dix heures demain matin, demain, dans une heure
And the context is implied in present tense.
What are these future time phrases called ? And where can i find more examples? Can someone share a lawless blog link?
“Sa mère et moi l'avons seulement assistée avec les démarches administratives.”. Hi, ”sa mère” (mother is female) “et moi” (“moi” is the father, who is male) “avons assistée” (first-person plural passé composé). We have a mixture of male and female forming the “we”, so should the past participle be “assisté” and not “assistée”? Thanks.
Hi, I am just wondering if in the following sentences, we could use " l'on" instead of "on" - as per
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/on-vs-lon/
(L') On passe toujours La Saint Sylvestre entre potes.
(L') On allume la télé pour voir le feu d'artifice de la tour Eiffel,
Et puis, le lendemain matin, comme (l') on aura tous la gueule de bois (comme d'habitude)
(l') on remplira nos flûtes d'Efferalgan et (l') on criera 'Santé!' en rigolant.
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