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Je me confuse sur cette exemple: "il va manquer une chaise à ton oncle." I get "there will be a chair missing" but how does "à ton oncle" (which I read as "to your uncle") compute as "your uncle will be missing a chair"?
The passage in question is, "pour que votre repas soit un succès !" I couldn't hear the "pour" at all despite running the audio track several times.
I follow the above lesson, but not so clear on when “ça “ is used.
I was asked to fill in the blank for the sentence, "After he said that, he left," where the conjugation of dire was missing. I had been asked so much lately about passé simple that I used simply dit, when a dit was expected. I was marked wrong for that.
But isn't it also correct, although unexpected? Or is it just that a native speaker would never do that for such a simple sentence, so it should be discouraged?
I found the first clue, something about asking two people, not so helpful. It lead me away from first choice, i.e. singular verb, to a plural.
There seems to be a little glitch with the answers: For "À chaque fois..." and "À la place..." the corrections mark À as wrong, and say that one should have used "A" with no accent in both cases (though it does go on to say that you 'could' have used "À").
Surely that's not right? Surely this will always be À ? Or am I missing something fundamental that I've never noticed before? I note that in the full text afterwards, "À chaque fois" and "À la place..." are used as I would have expected....
I understood that choisir took de when followed by a verb, not à
Oddly WRF and Larousse don't offer an opinion, but if you ask the internet it is clear that de is correct.
I am finding that vocab does play a big role in my comprehension. Empruntons was 'en Printemps' for me;-) I do understand that context is important as well, but I didn't have the word to "find." I absolutely love that all areas of study are covered here including listening comprehension which is hardest for me, especially on the phone.
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