French language Q&A Forum

I thought it was interesting that it can apparently be correct to blend passé composé and passé simple in the same sentence, according to this supposedly correct Kwiz answer: "Après s'être levé, William alla prendre son douche." Perhaps that is something that should be mentioned/clarified in the pertinent lesson?

I translated this exercise perfectly but scored zero. That was I misunderstood and found the exercise difficult to interpret.

Why is the "il lui coupait" in imparfait and not passé composé? It interprets the first actions (aunt speaking), so I thought it should be passé composé.

My Kwiz question was "How could you say "Gregory is going away for the holidays." ?

and the answers included pendant, durant and pour. Is "the holidays" considered to be a clearly defined start and end time?

In today's quiz all the content was in English! I am already an Anglophone...

Was that a glitch, was there an English/French toggle I didn't see or what?

Do you use c'est if a partitive article follows as well? 

I don't understand the difference between these two english responses.  I chose the scones in the quiz and it was market wrong.  Thank you for any clarification.

"Mathilde a rentré la voiture avant qu'il ne pleuve." means: 

·       Mathilde put the car back (in the garage) before it rained.

·       Mathilde returned the car before it rained.