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As the English was 'bedsheets', draps de lit should be accepted as correct - it got the blue line through 'de lit'. There may be regional differences, but in Australia we would usually not say 'bedsheets' unless being very specific, and 'sheets' would be the same as 'draps'.
French people in Australia will often revert to saying 'bed linen' or sometimes 'bed sheets', but avoid 'sheets' because the French accent changes "I have the sheets" to a rather colloquial expression !
'Il a honte de ne pas plus aider les gens.' I don't understand the use of 'ne pas plus' in the sentence. Shouldn't it be 'ne plus'?
I am trying why the woman's male partner addresses her as "tu" in one sentence, then as "vous" in the next sentence. Would please explain why?
Why is it 'des' and not 'd'' (since it means 'of years' and not 'of the years')?
"Courses" is plural and 'liste des courses' is the translation of shopping list in the bilingual Larousse.
Wordreference does list both - 'liste de courses' and 'liste des courses'
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/shopping_list/611408
What do you mean by "question word"? eg. (question word) + noun + reflexive pronoun + auxiliary verb + pronoun + past participle,
...but this doesn’t appear in the story.
The explanatory phrase, "from a past perspective," needs to be inserted into the Note to make it clear.
Lesson says says que go before what the only is related to
. As he earned only 1000 I put que before 1000 but it is marked wrong. Please explain
I was surprised to see the adjective “diverses” come before the noun “organisations”. Am I right to find this unusual, or is there maybe a rule I’m not aware of?
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