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When expressing the idea of passing by or popping into someone’s place is par always needed as well as chez? Examples in this lesson and the other on different uses of passer differ.
Elle est passée chez Laurent hier. She passed by Laurent’s place yesterday.
Yann passera par chez Laura après le travail. Yann will pass by Laura’s place after work.
Pense-t-on que Caligula était fou?
When I took French in school I remember there being a confusion with leur and leurs around sentences such as "the men went to their cars" where there was a difference between each man going to his own individual car versus the cars being collectively owned by the group of men.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or is it just "les hommes sont allés à leurs voitures" for both?
A small question. Tiers-Monde or tiers-monde ?
Should Tiers-Monde really be capitalised ?
I've looked at 3 dictionaries and it is spelt in lower case in all of them. If I was taking an exam , would either answer be acceptable ?
Any general rules about this ?
Thanks , Paul.
Est-ce qu’on peut dire ‘nous serons beaucoup plus écolo’ au lieu de ‘respectueux de l’environnement ‘
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