French language Q&A Forum

'Certain adverbs of time and manner can both be AT THE END or AT THE START of the sentence' - no, they can be used 'either at the end or at the start'. You are confusing 'both/and' with 'either/or'.

Thanks a lot, have to work a bit harder...

Sorry but I don't have accents. Why is it "ressemblent a des ecailles" and not "aux ecailles"?

Elle les (découper) - I think should be ‘Elles les découpes’ with a direct plural object, n’est-ce pas?

Questions about this topic, using the lesson examples:

Il a mangé de magnifiques gâteaux

He ate some magnificent cakes.

J'achète de beaux draps

I buy nice sheets.

Note that when the adjective is placed BEFORE a plural noun, the partitive article des (some) becomes de (or d' in front of a vowel or mute h). 

ATTENTION:
This rule doesn't apply when des is the contraction of "de + les" (= of/from/to the) :

J'ai acheté de nouvelles bottes

I bought [some] new boots.

My question is:  how is the 3rd example actually different from the previous two? How do we know that it would have be “de + les” and that they would not? Why wouldn’t they also have that option?

Merci  à l’avance!

Je pense que le mot critrouille est "pumpkin" en francais. je n'ai entendu pas de potirons?