A follow-up to a question previously raised up.Bonjour Madame Cécile !
Sorry for asking another query on tenses but this is my last question to reassure my concept-
• Aussitôt que vous _________( ne pas se sentir bien),vous __________( prendre) un médicament. [ Fill with appropriate past tenses] { Le Passé Composé/ L’Imparfait/ Le Plus-que Parfait }
I find the following cases correct ->
1. Aussitôt que vous ne vous êtes pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.
2. Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous aviez pris un médicament.
But I presume that the following case does not sit well after I plotted the actions on the timeline I designed ->
Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.
What does the above sentence signify Madame ?
It represents a situation where a person had felt ill and then he took a medicine and hence is inaccurate.
Je vous remercie du fond de mon cœur .
Bonne journée! À bientôt !
Does 'ces sont' exist in French or only 'ce sont'?
I have seen differing advice on this across the internet so I'm unsure
Thanks
why is the verb after qui "vient" and "fait"? I don't get that, sorry.
And how would I know to use other verbs the same way?
I'm a little confused here because I understand quitter to mean to leave something for good and sortir is merely to leave a place. in the question to translate: They leave their work at 7 o'clock - It seems the correct answer should be - Ils sortent leur travail à 19h, but the correct answer is giving me: Ils quittent leur travail à 19h. Why then is this correct?
Will this query ever be addressed or am I just not understanding the subtleties of 'leaving'?
The question is: How would you say "They are leaving soon"
From the list of multiple choice answers, I chose only one option: Ils partent bientôt
I am flagged as 'nearly correct' for not choosing : Ils sortent bientôt as well.
It is my understanding from everything I've read in the lesson and via the responses that "sortir" only means 'leaving' when used with 'de'.
What exactly is meant by "these can only be used on their own" when talking about "le jour d'avant/d'après"? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but for me the examples don't really encapsulate the concept. Do you mean that they can't be used to detail more about the thing that happened - only that which happened before and after it? For example you couldn't say:"le jour d'avant de la visite de ma tante" (the aunts visit being the springboard for what has happened the day before or after)
but you could say it when using "la veille":
"la veille de la visite de ma tante"
(and vice versa for le jour d'après and le lendemain)?Looking at the examples above of:"Le jeudi d'après, elle était partie.""Le mercredi d'avant, elle lui avait dit toute la vérité."etc.,
this is the only way I can see that le jour d'avant/d'après are different. They talk about what happened before/after the thing, but nothing more about the thing itself.
Please let me know if I've got this completely wrong... :-)
In a French grammar book I have it gives an example of 'vouloir que' being followed by a verb in the subjunctive which does not 'express a desire for someone else to do something,' which according to the Kwiziq lesson it should do.
'Le réalisateur n'a pas voulu que son film sorte avant la rentrée.' (The director did not want his film to come out before September.)
Could you please advise.
Thank you.
Bonjour Madame Cécile !
Sorry for asking another query on tenses but this is my last question to reassure my concept-
• Aussitôt que vous _________( ne pas se sentir bien),vous __________( prendre) un médicament. [ Fill with appropriate past tenses] { Le Passé Composé/ L’Imparfait/ Le Plus-que Parfait }
I find the following cases correct ->
1. Aussitôt que vous ne vous êtes pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.
2. Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous aviez pris un médicament.
But I presume that the following case does not sit well after I plotted the actions on the timeline I designed ->
Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.
What does the above sentence signify Madame ?
It represents a situation where a person had felt ill and then he took a medicine and hence is inaccurate.
Je vous remercie du fond de mon cœur .
Bonne journée! À bientôt !
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