French language Q&A Forum

In an exercise - Pauline s'habille de plus en plus élégamment.

Why is the 2nd "s" not pronounced as a "z" - given that the word following starts with an é ?

I have been studying the rules and just did a quiz on this.

Nous avons visité une exposition qu'un ami a recommandée.

If 'que' referred to 'un musée', then the past participle would lack the final 'e'?

"Wait, I'm passing Paul onto you."

What does this sentence mean? I'm not a native english speaker but this sentence makes no sense. 

Based on the french sentence, I deduce it has something to do with a phone conversation.

In the quiz there was this sentence:  By the time you were ready, the bus had already gone. We had to write the part up to the comma.

The answer given was Le temps que tu sois prête....  That to me translates as By the time you are ready, not were ready.  How would you write:  By the time you are ready the bus will be already gone.

What is the difference between très and trop? Because it corrected me when I said "Il est très drôle" instead of "Il est trop drôle". Thanks! 

I'm confused because on many other sites I see both these used as conditionnel. E.g., J'avais pu = I had been able to/could have

Si tu avais pu, tu aurais fait = If you could have, you would have.

Please explain.

I agree with James.  Please modify or remove this lesson.  Antibiotic abuse is a major public health problem.  It is important not to encourage their inappropriate use.  

This lessons specifically states that: 

To conjugate apparaître in Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), both auxiliaries avoir and être are perfectly valid and interchangeable while the meaning remains the same.  In terms of usage, être is used more often than avoir in colloquial speech.  

I've seen the comments below about one is used more for appearing, but why is mine wrong?

Soudain, j'ai apperu derrière eux

My translate app keeps correcting un évènement to un événement. I used the latter in this exercise and the result was that my answer matched, when it did not. Please explain which is correct. Thank you.

Does this convention only work when talking about full thousands/millions/billions? What if you want to say 12,505 things or 1,350,000 things?