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Georgia C.A1KwizIQ community member
en, dans le or au for states, regions and countiesIn the section where you explain about the difference between using en or dans le for states, regions and counties. You say that en is feminine and dans le is masculine. You give some examples of where to use au instead: au texas, au nouveau Mexique, au Québec. But I have had two questions in a row where I was asked what to put for Merseyside and Sussex. Going by the information you provided I put dans le (as they are masculine). I was marked wrong and told the answer was au. Could you please provide the examples of the English counties that use au instead of dans le. Thank you.
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W. L.C1KwizIQ community member
What's more common way to ask "can I"?
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Donald H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
une autre possiblitéPuis-je aussi dire <Y-a-t-il quelqu'un d'aiutre...  Merci d'avance,  Don
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Ian L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
Is it correct to say "Il s'est réveillé le jour d'après le mariage"?
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Bill A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
Nous devons utiliser une tierce personne comme témoin.

Bonjour - i'm confused as to why this is tierce instead of troisième.  The lesson stated that tierce is used for fractions or portions and troisième is used for rank or order.  A third party witness sounds like a ranking/ordering to me, and not a fraction or portion.

Would appreciate clarification.

Merci

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Maarten K.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor
Les parcs d'attractions ?

As a theme park is  « un parc d'attractions » (wordreference/Larousse) shouldn't the plural (general) be « les parcs d'attractions » ? The 's' on the end of « attractions » is being red-lined presently, and the transcription also has « les parcs d'attraction » without the final 's'.

Also, as has come up in at least a couple of other exercises 'very fun' is not considered good English by many (regional - in use US and Canada apparently, but is not good 'British' English) - just 'it is fun', 'it is a lot of fun',  'it is great fun'. 

It is not 'very fun' for many of us to see its repeated use.

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Ann H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
In the adventures of Fantôme this week, we were to translate "How many times Ii dreamt of being her" and the correct response was in the passé composébut isn't this a habituel motion? I used imparfait.
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Ian L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
aussi séduisant que Dick Van Dyke

I heard "et s'il était aussi séduisant que Dick Van Dyke" whereas your text reads "et s'il pouvait être aussi séduisant que Dick Van Dyke"

Have I misheard?  I can't hear "pouvait être" in there for the life of me!

Thanks,

Ian

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Eldra C.B1KwizIQ community member
When to use "récupérer"?Je vais d'abord passer chez le poissonnier pour récupérer les huîtres.

Is récupérer interchangeable with acheter? Can I use récupérer for clothes shopping? 

e.g. Je vais récupérer une robe

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Ryan N.A1KwizIQ community member
WHYYY

Honestly instead of making like 5-6 different articles about all the prepositions for to/from different places, why wouldn't you make a single article with a chart summarizing all of them?

It's a confusing topic, and it's expressed horrendously here on this website in an unnecessarily convoluted manner.

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