Demonstrative pronouns, L’Imparfait et PrépositionsBonjour Madame Cécile !
Apologies for posting another query, but of late, I have been testing on a few grammatical concepts at Kwiziq—
1. Ces fleurs sont jolies mais ______ sont les plus chères. (ce/ celles/celles-là)
Here, I opted for “ce” because of the expression “ce sont” however “celles-là” is correct. Why, Madame ?
2. Quand elles travaillaient pour IBM, elles (se marier déjà).
I had conjugated in the “L’Imparfait” as ‘se mariaient déjà’ in the sense of “were married”.
But, the answer was in Le Plus-que-Parfait. Why has Past perfect been used ?
3. Le bateau est _______ lac. (au milieu du/au bord du) Can’t “au bord de” be used with a lake or is it specifically for “au bord de la mer.”
Merci Madame Cécile !
Je vous souhaite une bonne journée!
I just got marked wrong for “par le métro” in a quiz
I read the written French easily but understanding the spoken is so so so hard for me. This is just at the right level. I can understand maybe 1/3rd of it.
et n'est pas toujours pas revenu. My question is in regard with first (Pas), should it be there? if so, why?. Also, I verified with the audio file, it is not there.
"Courses" is plural and 'liste des courses' is the translation of shopping list in the bilingual Larousse.
Wordreference does list both - 'liste de courses' and 'liste des courses'
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/shopping_list/611408
Bonjour Madame Cécile !
Apologies for posting another query, but of late, I have been testing on a few grammatical concepts at Kwiziq—
1. Ces fleurs sont jolies mais ______ sont les plus chères. (ce/ celles/celles-là)
Here, I opted for “ce” because of the expression “ce sont” however “celles-là” is correct. Why, Madame ?
2. Quand elles travaillaient pour IBM, elles (se marier déjà).
I had conjugated in the “L’Imparfait” as ‘se mariaient déjà’ in the sense of “were married”.
But, the answer was in Le Plus-que-Parfait. Why has Past perfect been used ?
3. Le bateau est _______ lac. (au milieu du/au bord du) Can’t “au bord de” be used with a lake or is it specifically for “au bord de la mer.”
Merci Madame Cécile !
Je vous souhaite une bonne journée!
Is it like the movie Back to the Future? or would that be posterior? When is it used?
Bon jour,
I still don't understand why des changes to de or d' . If it's a vowel it's fine but adjectif+ noun ,why in this case . Why des changes ,how does it make a difference to the sentence.
In case of partitive article ,while doing negation des changes to de as there is no quantity. That's understandable.
What's the rule here ,as it's article des.
Thank you.
I am still unclear when to put a de in front of an infinitive verb. I understand when the de is part of a preceding expression but consistently get it wrong. Can you give me some definitive way to determine if the infinitive verb should be preceded by de (or not)?
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