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Drew B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Imparfait on Saturday, but Passé Composé on Sunday?

Ok, Team Kwiziq. Au secours! À l'aide!

"Samedi dernier, il y avait du brouillard et il faisait froid et humide."

- We're describing the weather, setting up the condition. Ergo: l'imparfait seems the perfect tense here.

"Dimanche, il a fait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée."

- In context, we're implying the day following "samedi dernier," still describing the weather, setting up the condition, so why do we jump to the passé composé? It makes sense to me to use it the sentence "Mon frère et moi sommes sortis dans le jardin pour ramasser des escargots," as it happened on that particular Sunday, doesn't feel habitual, doesn't feel like it was on ongoing event...

Nonetheless why not "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il pleuvait toute la journée." Or even better, "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée." ???

Asked 6 years ago

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Valerie O.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

I’ll start again: If the sentence order is buying a yellow ruler (fem) and yellow pen (masc)—-sentence in that order—-why is the pen adj fem?

I got this wrong on the test, but the lesson doesn’t speak clearly to the answer the test wanted. I’m confused.

Asked 7 years ago

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Ann H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why is the subjonctive not used in the phrase: "il ne pense pas qu'il sera là à temps...." I thought penser in the negative takes the subjonctive?

Asked 7 years ago

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Alex T.A1KwizIQ community member

Body part articles

Why "ses jambes" instead of "les jambes"?

My understanding was that you used definitive articles, not possesive

Asked 6 years ago

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Scott P.A2KwizIQ community member

Continous or Repetitive action?

I notice that all of the examples here have cues in them to indicate repetitive action. What if the sentence does not contain such cues? Should it be interpreted as continuous action or repetitive action?

e.g. Je faisais du sport.

Without any cues would that mean “I was playing sports” or “I used to play sports” or is it equally ambiguous?

Asked 7 years ago

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jennifer A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

passé simple

when do we use the passé simple and not the imparfait ?

thank you.

Asked 7 years ago

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Winston K.C1KwizIQ community member

Can I use "j'en ai marre" instead of "ça suffit" ?

I think in this context the dad was getting annoyed of the kids fighting each other. Therefore "j'en ai marre" can be appropriate.

Asked 5 years ago

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Donald H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Marcel sera rentré d'ici une heure.Je comprends qu'on veut dire qu'il sera rentré chez lui <within et by>. Mais, je ne crois pas qu'il soit une difference entre les deux. On dit en anglais, il sera rentre chez lui dans une heure...? Ça veut dire <he will be home in one hour ou quoi?

Asked 8 years ago

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Isaac E.A1KwizIQ community member

C'est vs Il (Elle) estOne of the Kwizes has the question: "Tu aimes l'école? Oui, ______ est très bien." Both "c'est" and "elle est" are among the choices to choose from, from "c'est" alone is listed as the correct answer.

Shouldn't both "c'est" and, "elle est" be correct answers, since the question is ambiguous about whether it's asking, "do you like school [in general]" or, "do you like _the_ school [which you attend]?"

Asked 6 years ago

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June C.A2KwizIQ community member

Lesson discussionsI thought "Discuss this lesson" is a discussion about "this" lesson or "this" topis specifically. But it seems to point to the same discussion thread whichever lesson I'm at. Am I missing something?

Asked 7 years ago

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