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Hi,

Can anyone explain why sometimes in these types of phrases  plural is used 'nos vies' or sometimes it is expressed in the singular ' leur imagination'

Is it optional or is there a rule governing this?

Thanks

In the exercise about the new green car with the brown leather seats, one alternate answer was ‘Ils sont fait en cuir.’ The best answer was ‘Il sont en cuir’. Present tense.   Was the alternate answer in passe compose? If so, wouldn’t that be ‘ils ont fait en cuir?’  

What are the situations in which we add « de » like this? Is it a general rule for talking about rates? 

Thanks!

Instead of "Benjamin veut être bilingue un jour" I tried "Benjamin a envie d'être bilingue un jour."
This sounds correct to me, but it was not offered as altenative.

What do you think?

is this the same for all future tenses?

for example jouer - becomes je jouerai so you dont pronounce the e after this i either? 

I’ve been studying French church architecture this week and had thought I understood that the saint themself is written with no hyphen, but if their name is used for a road, church, town etc, it becomes hyphenated. For example, Saint Denis for the person and  Saint-Denis for the basilica or commune. So I was surprised in this exercise to see the archangel spelt Saint-Michel.

I also noticed that sauvé and sauvée are both accepted for Orléans - presume either is ok here?

Wrong: Personne n'

Correct: Aucune n'

Any Reason why?

Thank you for your help

ceci ou cela    Doesn't celui-ci ou celui-la  mean the same thing, this or that ?

Vous avez utilisé cinq points d'exclamation dans cette dictée!

How can "Ils partent leur travail à 17 h" be wrong and only "Ils quittent leur travail à 17 h" be right?   I don't see a specific rule as this type of question was used for both parter and quitter.