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Pourquoi est-ce qu'on écrit "ma sœur ou moi allumions une bougie à tour de rôle" C'est seulement une des sœurs qui fait la tâche.. donc , logiquement "allumer" serait au singulier???????
I found I had more difficulty with the punctuation that the words! A lot of English writing increasingly drops commas these days, and it might be helpful to know the French rules! For example, I wouldn’t put a comma before "in Spain" in the first sentence.
I listened to this sentence loads of times trying to see if there was any hint of an ellision ( "je serai z-enfin" ). There was not, and thus I concluded that it must have been "serai" not "serais". Is no ellision used after "serais" ?
Dans la deuxième phrase, nous devons traduire le mot, infuriating. Vous avez choisi "exaspérant" et je crois que vous avez aussi donné la possibilité "énervant". J'ai choisi "rageant" qui n'était pas acceptable. C'est un mauvais choix ? Pour moi, je pense que rager implique plus d'émotion que exaspérer ce qui est exactement le cas entre infuriate et exasperate en l'anglais. Vous n'est pas d'accord ?
The very first example given of when to use "c'est" is:
"C'est une jolie robe."
This clearly refers to a specific dress.
But then we are told that the answer to "Tu aimes mon pull?" should be "Oui, il est très beau."
Why is the rule for a specifc dress different than the rule for a specific sweater? Is it that "il/elle est" should be used when answering a question about a specific thing but that "c'est" can be used otherwise?
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.
Why is this not in Imparfait? It's a description and the family, presumably, continues to love dogs.
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