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" ce pull ne va pas du tout. je le retourne tout de suite"

I thought retourner shouldnt be used in the context of returning something to the shop,,, I hear " Retourner never means to return (something) in the context of a shop for example. In French, we use rapporter (to bring back) or échanger [quelque chose]  can you say je le rentre? and or je le rapporte"? , 

Someone mentioned "I don't think retourner means to return in English like returning an item to a store (render quelque chose au magasin pour un remboursement) or putting an item away. is it the same for returning an item anywhere else than a shop like say a library? 

Another mentioned 99% of the time retourner isn't used to say you returned something in general. So is: "J'ai rendu les livres a la bibliotheque"  & j'ai rapporte les livres a la bibliotheque more preferred than j'ai retourne les livres a la bibliotheque. is it just the matter of choosing what sounds better in this case? even though you could possibly use retourner

& what is the difference between s'en retourner and retourner

Bonjour à tous!

Voici ma question: Que veut dire "tu te la racontes?" 

Je sais que c'est une expression sarcastique...peut-être l'équivalent à "tu rêves" ou "tu veux rire?"

Pourriez-vous m'aider à la comprendre?

Merci en avance!

Jen

According to the lesson of negative form using partitive  articles: du, de la, de l' and des all become de or d' (in front of a vowel or mute h) in negative sentences using ne...pas, ne...jamais, ne...plus.

How do I know when to use ne...pas,  ne...jamais or ne...plus in the negative form based on the affirmative sentence?

The answer provided is "C'est Marc Dupré."

Why? I would have thought the answer should have been "Il est Marc Dupré." 

Is this a special case when using c'est? Use it for stating a person's name?