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Why were my answers marked as wrong? Surely Six millions de dollars & Six milliards de dollars are correct.

Could you also say here ' nous étions allés écouter des chants de Noël à l'église locale.'?

I am very confused:

 Ex: After YOU visited the city, YOU… ( same subject). Why is it translated by: «  après que vous avez visité la ville, vous… instead of «  après avoir visité la ville, vous… ».  Merci de me répondre. 

Do we lose points for omitted commas and other punctuation? When I had dictée exercises in France the instructor/narrator always included reading punctuation marks.

I took a quiz. I translated "They are calling their dog" as Ils appellent leur chien. However, the correct answer was: Ils s'appellent leur chien. How does one know when to use the reflexive?

1.       Ses déclarations étranges auront déconcerté le public.

how to write this in passive form?

Would it be correct to use the three-layer structure I wrote down below, when building sentences with double pronouns? Imagine it like a matrix with three columns:

ME, TE, SE, NOUS, VOUS   |   LE, LA, LES   |   LUI, LEUR

Ex  Nous vous | les envoyons demain. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex  e_m_p_t_y | Je la | leur explique clairement.

Ex  Je vous | la donne. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex  e_m_p_t_y | Je la | lui donne.

I think I understand the basic concept here. Is there an easy way to remember which verbs are followed by à? The list is VERY long. 

What does this mean, kindly illustrate it with an example.

When the subject of your interrogative sentence is a noun, this one comes first and it's then repeated by the matching pronoun