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*Eux* seuls sont venus - why this is correct and not - Ils seuls sont venus
Hi Aurélie,
I notice a few people have asked the same question about the sentence - Tu lui as parlé' being translated as 'You talked to her' but parlé not agreeing with a feminine ‘lui’. You have said that the past participle doesn’t agree with an indirect object pronoun, and refer people to the advanced lesson: Special cases where the past participle agrees... However that lesson only talks about direct object pronouns and doesn’t actually say that the past participle doesn’t agree with an indirect object pronouns. I wondered if - for completeness and clarity - you could add that to the lesson, if it is not covered elsewhere. Many thanks.
In the B2 writing exercise, occurs the following phrase: le Ministère a finalement confirmé ce lundi for: the Ministry finally confirmed this Monday.
If ce is a demonstrative adjective, this construction seems incorrect. I translated it as le Ministère l'a confirmé lundi.
What happens when the indefinite article is followed by a preposition?
For example :
Le médecin travaille dans un hôpital.
The negative sentence according to the rule is ' Le médecin ne travaille pas dans d'hôpital ' .
But d'hôpital sounds so absurd.
Is there any rule of negation when the the indefinite article is followed by a preposition?
Hello
Could you please explain why the pronoun 'en' is used in this phrase? I am having difficulty recognising when to use en and what it means in this context. Thanks.
....et en acceptèrent la langue
I was really scratching my head as to why the lesson seemed to think there was a difficulty about whether it should be "dans la rue" or "sur la rue".
Most people in England would say "I live in such and such street", so there's no difficulty at all in saying "J'habite dans rue such and such".
I suspect that to live "on" a street is an American usage, so perhaps the lesson should deal with that in the usual way by translating as "I live in xxxx street (US I live on xxx street)" ?
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I'm interested in the use of the future tense for classer here. I can't find any rule about it anywhere.
Clearly this event took place in the past. Is this a mistake ? Shouldn't this have been in the passé simple to give it a literary/formal feeling ? i.e. classa
<< Mais en 1969, André Malraux le classa enfin au titre des monuments historiques >>
Any thoughts welcome. Thanks, Paul.
Hi! Just a quick question, the play head doesn't allow me to go back or move forward as in if I wanted to play back or listen again to only a certain part of the exercise/story. And I have to listen to the whole thing again, for just one small part. Is this something that is intentional or an oversight? thank you
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