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Why venions? Subjunctive?

Je suppose qu'on peut dire "Elle est froid(e)" pour signifier "Elle n'est pas chaleureuse"?  Ai-je raison?  Si oui, est-ce que l'adjectif accord avec le sujet dans ce cas?

In the expression ”...where we'll be able to chat at length.”, is it possible to use ’en détail’ instead of ’longuement’ ?  My dictionary gives both as possibilities. 

I tend to get tangled up with possessive "de" but wanted to query why the two capitalised nouns above take de l’ rather than d’? The dog is best friend of "Man" not "a man", and capitalising both nouns implies to me a generalisation or personification: despite that, they don’t seem to be treated as proper nouns in French. 

I don't understand the difference between Je viens a + ville and Je viens de + ville

AVEC DE (du, des) vs aux Is there a rule for this?

Salade DE

Saumon AVEC DU , DES

Poulet AVEC DES

Pâtes AUX Gâteau au...AVEC glace

aux pommes AVEC crème

I suspect the prepositions in this lesson don’t mean the same in US and British English.

As a Brit, I wouldn’t say either stop by or pop by somewhere. Pass by and go past mean the same as each other and don’t imply you stopped or went inside: for that, I’d use "go", "pop" or "drop" "into" or "in to" or another construction like "I went to see Laurent at his house".

So I’m not clear if "Elle est passée chez Laurent" means she went in to see him or went past his house without stopping?

 (Setting aside the usage of "place", as in "Laurent’s place")

I was also thrown by this sentence because at first sight it contains the phrase "bien entendu".  I guess the "bien" is qualifying  "j’ai entendu parler", but does it mean something more than just "J'avais entendu parler de ce nouveau poste" ?