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I just put réussir à un examen in one of your tests and you marked the "à" as wrong although I was always taught this was correct. I have checked in both Collins dictionary and in the Harraps dictionary and they both say réussir à un examen. Please could you explain this?
It would be very helpful to have a translation of these dictation exercises
Normally I have used the preposition à before a city, as in je vais à Paris. You don't use au Paris. In this exercise, we have a city with a plural name, namely Les Sables d'Olonne. Apparently, one must use aux Sables d'Olonne in stead of à Les Sables d'Olonne. So, is this a general rule: à + name of a singular city and aux + name of a plural city name?
Why are these 2 words "fascine and intimide" not written in the passé composé.
I have noticed that transparaître and derivatives are seen with both être and avoir as auxiliaries. I assume it's because of transitive and intransitive verb usage. Is this the reason ? Can you please give me some examples.
In the quiz I got 'Elle trouve ________ beau'. I answered: que t'es. However, this was counted wrong and instead it should be que tu es. Would my contraction be incorrect?
If I have a bad knee it implies that the knee is hurting, so it means the same as my knee hurts. The pain does not have to be chronic and may be caused by a graze or a slight strain. So why is "I have a bad knee " considered incorrect ?
Question..What does ''Mon amie non plus.'' mean ?.. answer My friend neither.
“My friend too.“ Is given as a mistake.
.. maybe a bit too correct.. whilst my friend neither is grammatically correct, how many of us would actually say that? I think most would more often say “my friend too”.. meaning” my friend agrees with me!
Hi there,
When speaking about an object or something being on a body part, do we always use "à"+le/la/les?
example: " ...une plaie immense au bras gauche".
What does it mean if you say ".... une plaie immense "sur" son bras gauche"
It was marked incorrect, but doesn’t it fit the sentence better? It said that it should have been “Pendant qu’il va se préparer avec toi....”.
Thanks!
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