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Your explanations often are confusing.  You write "Note that the verb agrees with the object"But what you mean is

"The pleasing thing or person is the subject, and as always, subjects and verbs agree.  The person or thing being pleased is placed as an indirect object, either as the object of the preposition à or with an indirect object pronoun.

I am a little confused about the use of la journée and le soir in this text. 'During the day' (Pendant la journée) is feminine - I understand this as she is discussing a length of time rather than a specific point in time. I don't understand why 'in the evening' (le soir) is not 'la soirée' - what distinguishes these two statements to make the switch from feminine to masculine? Is it the preceding "during" and "in"?

Thanks in advance! 

This was my first time coming across the inverted questions.. 'puis je'

I read the lesson that that's more formal and 'est-ce que' is used more colloquially. I thought you could always replace est-ce que with just the interogative + subject + verb so I put 'Que je peux faire...' which was marked wrong. Is this wrong with these inverted questions?

And also in the lesson it mentioned "statement order"'questions being a possibility. What are these?

Hi

How come there is no subjunctive after 'Il faut dire que'?  

Merci

Megan