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When doing the writing tests, I find myself regularly struggling with knowing when to place accents (and regularly second-guessing myself too!).
Are there any rules of thumb to help with this? For example, the 'ô' seems to always appear in words which sound similar in english and one would place an 's': eg hôpital, hôtel, hôte, etc.
I generally have trouble with accented 'e's (ignoring the "obvious" accents, such as when using the passé composé and other conjugation rules) so any advice would be very welcome.
Per the given definition of the use of demeurer, je suis demeurê makes no sense since the question refers to a state of mind and not a location. Why is that given as the correct answer?
please do you have something for beginners?
Great dictée, interesting, with food for thought.
I continue to find punctuation challenging, as the speaker's voice does not always indicate what follows etc.
An example from this dictée: It opens with "Bonjour" followed by - to me - a long silence in which l imagine the speaker connecting with the audience and then, "Aujourd'hui..." So l wrote "Bonjour! Aujourd'hui ..." whereas Kwiziq is programmed for "Bonjour, aujourd'hui ...".
I no longer deduct for punctuation such as commas, exclamation marks and full stops and wonder whether naming at least these could be considered. Thanks!
What is the rule for capitalisation here? The Cirque in the first line is capitalised but in the last line is marked incorrect when capitalised.
The following sentence has the verb following 'que'. Is this OK?
C'est ainsi que se termine cette histoire.That's how this story ends.
Shouldn't it be:C'est ainsi que cette histoire se termine.
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?
The lesson on professions and pronouns says that when an adjective is used a pronoun is needed.
So would : "Catherine, une ancienne prof de philo"
be acceptable
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