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Timothy H.C1Kwiziq community member

Si j'étais toiI recently came across this phrase in a conditional sentence while reading: "Si j'étais toi,...", but I can't find any grammatical reference to explain how the stressed pronoun can be used as a direct object after the verb instead of what sounds worse but looks grammatically correct: "Si je t'étais,..." Is this allowed just for emphasis or allowed within certain clauses, and is it unique to the verb être?

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Mohammad S.A2Kwiziq community member

Hi Aurelie , I am a premium member of this site. Will I be able to access my notebooks once my premium membership is terminated ?? Best Rgds/Mohammad Shibly

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Cadena B.A0Kwiziq community member

tires on your car - not tyres

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Meghna J.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Padawans?C'est quoi Padawans?

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Gaurav P.A1Kwiziq community member

Monter with a personHi Aurélie, This is a great article, thank you. Referring to http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/avoir_or_etre.shtml can yo clarify "In other cases, particularly when the subject is a person, être is used:" e.g. he went up to the third floor. Is this different to your example above 'you went up the stairs silently"

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Meghna J.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Aucun/e and personneCan you help understand better when either is used? With examples perhaps?

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

writing challengesWhy can't I load the writing challenges I have tried to ad three differnt levels of challenge, but after 20 mins I still get a circle whirling around. I have tried re-loading bt nothing helps thank you

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

achievement pageI have a silver and a brone star in lessons that I can not find now to improve the star rating one for plural of adjectives and the other for durant or pendant . The second silver star- for the conjugasion of boire in the present I can find many thanks

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yellamaraju s.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Verbs conjugate with auxillary avoir - past pariciples agreeing in number/gender.Request: Need to know the situation (and also the lesson) when verbs conjugated with Verbs using "avoir" where past participle agrees with noun in gender and number as in" Quelles bonnes resolutions as-tu prises cette année ? Thanks.

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Arash F.C1Kwiziq community member

De quoiWhen do we use de quoi. For example can we say La fourchette de quoi tu te sers était à ma mère.

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