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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Cependant, le Goncourt est également décrié par de nombreux critiques, lesquels tendent à citer la liste d'auteurs majeurs du XXe siècle

I was interested by the "lesquels" in the middle of this sentence: is it a fancier way of emphasising the critics, rather than using "qui tendent" ?

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H. A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

"Bagpipes" is always plural

Re "(Mes frères jouent ________ cornemuse) My brothers play the bagpipe", there is no singular word "bagpipe" in English; it should say "bagpipes".

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Mike H.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

This lesson frustrates me more than any other"Aurélie n'est qu'allée au marché."? In the lesson you state that "you always put the que in front of the word you restrict". So in this sentence you are restricting "allee", where she went. Yet the answer, she went to the market and nowhere else is marked wrong, with the right answer being she went to the market and did nothing else. How would you state that she went to the market and nowhere else?

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Leigh F.C1KwizIQ community member

Tenir vs garder

How do I know which to use our of tenir and garder in any particular context, please?

Asked 7 months ago

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Patricia C.C1KwizIQ community member

Why can't you use ça est? You correct this to ça c'est.

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Kat U.B2KwizIQ community member

preposition wording

Bonjour,

In the dictation, why does it say, "l'appart EN colocation" (shared appartment) and why not "l'appart DE colocation"?

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Jennifer D.C1KwizIQ community member

Les parents n'avaient cessé de râler et de se disputer

Why isn't it "Les parents n'avaient pas cessé de râler et de se disputer"?

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harjot K.A2KwizIQ community member

I struggled with vocabulary, can you please provide vocab related to food

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Pamela L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

On veut simplement s'assurer que le gouvernement comprenne notre mécontentement

I always understood that if you use 'on' that you had to match it with 'son mécontentement 'ie. 'On' with 'son' and 'nous' with 'notre'

Can anyone clarify ?

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Janet D.C1KwizIQ community member

Le mot "pas"

J'ai appris beaucoup de cet exercise. Pourquoi il n'y a pas le mot "pas" dans la phrase .....qu'ils ne soient nés en captivité...? Merci.

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