French language Q&A Forum

The lesson says that when talking about specifics, you use être, but the kwiz said this should be aller:

Martine était malade, mais elle ________ mieux à présent.

She is feeling better at present sounds like it is specific, so why is 'est' not right here?

"le propriétaire m'a dit que vous étiez mon fournisseur d'électricité".

Can you explain the use of the imperfect tense in this context?

I chose "vous seriez"rather than 'vous  étiez".  I interpreted "were" as conditional (ie, as "you would be") rather than literally "you were".  I thought that Bruno was not already a client of the electricity provider. Is this acceptable?