French language Q&A Forum

I think this distinction is changing, even amongst ardent defenders of the purity of French

I thought that se rappeler does not require a de preposition unless it comes before a verb.  Why does she say "Je m'en rappelle ..." in the last sentence and not "je me le rappelle ....?"  Merci !

Hello, I was doing the writing exercise, Catherine Ségurane: a local heroine, I came across this sentence: 

If you look behind me, on the ancient wall of the city,

I put ancien after mur but the correct answer is: 

Si vous regardez derrière moi, sur l'ancien mur de la cité

And no, there was no hint about that. I really don't understand why we use ancien before the noun in that case. 

Why is it that " et j'ai vraiment apprécié l'espace supplémentaire" not in imparfait if they are describing the setting and expressing emotions. The next time they express their past emotions it is in imparfait "et nous n'étions pas fatigués à l'arrivée."

"Vous alliez vous rejoindre…" Is this construction because the subject pronoun stays with the infinitive?  Is something lost if you say "vous vous alliez rejoindre…"

If I were to conjugate Ecrire in plus que parfait how would it be like

In the first sentence, "to go to work" is given as "pour aller travailler".  I put "pour aller au travail", which was not provided as an alternative.  I've seen the second approach used, so I'm wondering if it's considered wrong, or just not included in this exercise.