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Where are we allowed to place 'du tout' in the negation? And where are we not allowed to do such? Are only having 'du tout' after 'pas' or at the end of the sentence the only correct options ?
- Je ne veux pas du tout travailler en tant qu'avocat(e)
- Je ne veux pas travailler en tant qu'avocat(e) du tout
- Je ne veux pas travailler du tout en tant qu'avocat(e)
- Je ne veux pas du tout être comme lui
- Je ne veux pas être comme lui du tout
- Je ne veux pas être du tout comme lui
- Je n'ai pas du tout apprécié ce qu'il a dit
- Je n'ai pas apprécié ce qu'il a dit du tout
- Je n'ai pas apprécié du tout ce qu'il a dit
Hi
I have been taught that à cause de is used negatively. The positive usage is grace à. Whats your opinion?
Again, étonnant is also used negatively or so i have been told. Maybe you wanted use it as such here.
Is there any difference between "il a fait exprès de casser ma poupée" and "il a cassé ma poupée exprès"?
I've only ever encountered the latter before, and it seems more straightforward to not have the extra verb floating around, but perhaps there's a subtle difference that I'm missing?
Thanks a lot, have to work a bit harder...
This is a technical issue. Listening to the full text playback for this exercise, often when I press pause the playback continues, or continues then stops randomly, or continues with an overlap delay. I have the same problem with all of the full text writing exercise playbacks. Am I doing something wrong?
" Ayant passé une très bonne journée ..." Is this the past form of 'le gérondif'? Oops! Having just posed the question, I think I found the answer in the link in the lesson. So, would it be correct if I said, "Ayant juste posé cette question, j'ai trouvé la réponse." ?
when to use an article with a country
I don't know if this was just a glitch, but during the exercise in the acceptable answers for "I made my pumpkin pie", the option audio says "J'ai fait ma tarte à la citrouille" but the option text says "J'ai fait ma tarte à citrouille". The text at the end of the exercise under "Here's the full text for you to read and listen to:" is correct.
Can you explain why you can put bien meilleure after the noun? I know that meilleur always goes before the noun, but I did'nt realise that it could go after the noun when used with bien. Why is that?
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