French language Q&A Forum

Can you explain grammatically the construction if this phrase?  I get that it means "we got home from school", but it seems unnecessarily complicated.  Could you not say "nous étions retourné de l'école"?

The fill in the blanks exercise was about people arriving in a new town, to find the streets empty of people. "Tous les magasins de la ville étaient fermés." This was followed by a sentence in the past tense (walking on empty streets from 3pm till 5pm) Then came the sentence being queried (post below).   Thanks so very much to all who responded earlier.

I used the subjunctive for the following:

La vue .... était la plus belle que j'aie jamais vue...... (subjective attitude?)

Would it be, then, "je mange plein de chocolat" or "plein de chocolats"?  "Plein de pomme de terre" or "plein de pommes de terre"?  Thanks in advance.  

Why is there no "une" before "salle de bains" in this sentence: "Oui, une chambre double avec salle de bains privative."

In the text the 'e' at the end of 'carte' seems to be pronounced. If so could you please explain why this is, as the next word 'bleue' starts with a consonant and not a vowel (which then normally requires the liaison). Thank you.

I just realized that qui is used for living things,  trick question eh