Affirmative use of prétendre with subjunctive relative clausePensée et Structure, copyright 1969 by John/Jean Darbelnet, a French textbook that has haunted me since 1971, distinguishes between using prétendre in the affirmative with the indicative and with the subjunctive - a distinction blessedly no longer "felt" by the modern Frenchman, or so I am told....
So, per this evidently out-of-date usage:
Il prétend qu'il a tout compris, c'est-a-dire, il affirme que.....
Il prétend qu'on ne fasse rien sans le consulter, c'est-a-dire, il exige que......
The text makes further such distinctions for comprendre, supposer, dire, et il me semble que. This can be found in numbered paragraph 215. My original copy was so marked up, I bought a second copy on Amazon.
I would love input from native French speakers....
I really don't understand why this can't be translated as "Whom does she see?" It was marked wrong yet it seems to be following all the rules. I'm confused and would appreciate an answer.
When doing an A1 exercise, Kwizbot translates 'On Monday I go snorkelling', and 'on Tuesday Hugo and I rent a jet ski', with "le lundi....." and "le mardi...." . Surely this is inconsistent with the rule given in the notes, where using the definite article imp[lies every Monday, or habitually on Tuesdays ???? I did not use the definite article precisely because I interpret this sentence to mean the events were one time only, with reference to next Monday and next Tuesday??
Pensée et Structure, copyright 1969 by John/Jean Darbelnet, a French textbook that has haunted me since 1971, distinguishes between using prétendre in the affirmative with the indicative and with the subjunctive - a distinction blessedly no longer "felt" by the modern Frenchman, or so I am told....
So, per this evidently out-of-date usage:
Il prétend qu'il a tout compris, c'est-a-dire, il affirme que.....
Il prétend qu'on ne fasse rien sans le consulter, c'est-a-dire, il exige que......
The text makes further such distinctions for comprendre, supposer, dire, et il me semble que. This can be found in numbered paragraph 215. My original copy was so marked up, I bought a second copy on Amazon.
I would love input from native French speakers....
When talking about Saturday and Sunday, "le" is used. But the grammar section on articles + days of the week says that if you are talking about a particular day of the week (i.e., a particular Saturday, as the Saturday of this romantic weekend) and not the day in general, you don't use the article. So why is it used here?
I know they differ in formality, but they have the same basic meaning of 'please'. Much confusion!
I've always been baffled about when a hyper is used as in this interview "As-tu..." Je bison d'aide!
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