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David P.C1Kwiziq community member

position of "jamais rien" relative to "dit"Hi,

I am not clear about the position of "jamais rien" in these sentences below. Sentence #1 is listed as the correct answer - but it seems that the order of "jamais rien" in the second sentence is similar to examples shown in the lesson.

SENTENCE #1 Il ne dit jamais rien à personne.

SENTENCE #2 (my answer) Il ne jamais rien dit à personne.

Help, please! Thanks

Asked 5 years ago

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Shrey R.A1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Is it that pronom 'où' is followed by a noun or subject pronoun?

Asked 7 years ago

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M. A.C1Kwiziq community member

So, the Lesson says that each case of Etre being the auxiliary, repasser is followed by a preposition. Example ONE has no preposition (in French)??

Asked 6 years ago

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Mtete l.A0Kwiziq community member

On we or Un one

What I want to say is when we are ask

One mustn't talk back to one's parents.

On ne doit pas répondre à ses parents.

Your answer is " On " that is what I don't understand to me the question does not say We mustn't talk back to one's parents. so the answer should be "Un" if not why ?

Asked 6 years ago

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Michael P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Where do you teach putting "Plus tard" at the beginning of a sentence.

Position of adverbs.

In a multiple choice question, I was presented with "plus tard" at the beginning of a sentence.

"Plus tard, elle te parlera."

This lesson does not teach this, or did I miss something?

Sidenote...to my ear this sentence sounded correct...I had selected it then checked the lesson, when I did not see this particular construction discussed I reversed my decision. I can hear myself saying "she will talk to you later" in French this way.

Asked 6 years ago

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Anthony F.C1Kwiziq community member

remerciement à Aurélie

Je veux simplement remercier Aurélie pour vos lessons superbes et commenter que ma mère, Marcelle Eudes a quitté Le Havre en 1936 pour étudier l'anglais à l'université de Southampton et elle aussi a resté en Angleterre (à part les années de la guerre où elle est retournée au Havre jusqu'à la fin du bombardement) pendent toute sa vie jusqu'à 93 ans. Elle aurait eu 100 ans cette année. C'était toujours vers maman que nous avons dirigé nos questions concernant la grammaire soit en français soit en anglais! Merci à vous brillantes enseignantes! Anthony Ford-Jones (Canada)

Asked 7 years ago

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Åb L.A2Kwiziq community member

Intonation

In this lesson all questions seem to end at a low point, while in the si-lesson, all questions end at a high point. Isn't the latter intonation pattern the correct form for questions in French?

Asked 7 years ago

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Becky W.C1Kwiziq community member

Puis-je

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?

Asked 2 years ago

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