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WRITE THE FOLLOWING TIME IN FRENCH USING MOINS LE QUART. 1. 3:45 2. 20:45 3. 21:45 4. 7:45 5. 23:45

Pourquoi avez-vous utilisé le dans l'expression "pour le goûter" et pas la, alors qu'il s'agit de la tarte, qui est un mot féminin ?

How can it be "le repas de la Saint-Sylvestre"? Sylvestre was a man as I understand it?

Bonjour, in the first example given,

J'habite à Paris depuis cinq ans, et ça me plaît toujours !

Translation: I've lived in Paris for five years, and I still love it!

Shouldn't it be "encore", since it means "still"?

Is there a reason why I cannot use “ étonnée “ for surprised? The answer given uses “surprise”. Thanks 

How does the scoring system work? I got several sentences right without any corrections and scored 0 out of 70.

Another exercise with lots of corrections, I got 30. It doesn't make any sense. Or shouldn't we pay attention to the scores?

How are we to guess at correct punctuation?  Unless you can remember the entire speech, it is sometimes difficult to tell whether a section should end with a comma, a period or an exclamation point.  (And, actually, the sentence beginning "Paul va prendre sa voiture..." is a declarative sentence and not a question.) I have not been counting myself off where such punctuation is concerned because there seems to be no definite way to determine what the correct punctuation should be.

I think the explanation for avoir envie de vomir needs to be amended to say that this can be expressed using avoir besoin de as well as using devoir. Having studied the lesson, I assumed you could only use avoir envie de. 

To me it looks like "la plupart" (singular) is the subject rather than "des gens" (plural), so why is the rest of the sentence in the plural?

Why isn't ces used in this reply - given that les livres is plural