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Parfois, je prends la voiture juste pour me promener dans la campagne.
Instead of saying, 'nous avons reste des predateurs', why couldn't we write, 'nous avons demure des predauteurs'?
I understand that the lesson is focusing on one skill but it would seem that if the student got the concept correct but used a different word that was correct, it should be accepted. (unless of course demurer should not have been used in this lesson instead of rester).
Thank you! I love Kwiziq (and I had sent an email previously about how some of the feedback from the lessons could be enhanced).
Shouldn't "mon coeur" be "mon cœur?"
Should "Montre-moi les mains!" really be considered wrong? I understand you put that in this lesson as an example of reducing ambiguity, with "tes mains", but I definitely don't see it as something to be taken as a wrong answer in a quiz.
If I'm correct, we do the exact same thing in Spanish, and both "Muéstrame tus manos" y "Muéstrame las manos" would be correct. There is no ambiguity whatsoever (i.e. no sane person would wonder whose hands we're asking the person to show). Is it really really different in French?
I mean, it is one thing to try to get students to answer what you taught them, and a very different thing to reject right answers (especially when this very same lesson covers using definite articles for this).
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I thought esperer did not take the subjonctif unlike souhaiter.
Thanks
I do understand the distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs, but for this English speaker there seems to a real difference between "tu as descendu le cadeau" or "j’ai descendu les boîtes" versus "j’ai descendu les escaliers". You don’t "do" anything (like carrying it down or getting it down) to the staircase/ladder/beanstalk! I’m not sure if the French view the two situations identically or whether it’s just idiomatic to descend something with steps or rungs using the transitive form ?
The correct "City of Lights" translation for Paris in French is La Ville Lumière not La Cité des Lumières! You should fix this.
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ville_Lumi%C3%A8re
The question in the quiz read: Le DJ est insupportable. Tout le monde ______ pense. Fill in the blank with y en le, etc. So the answer is le. As I understand you use le when it replaces a phrase that starts with que or and infinitive. Where is the indication that I should use le? Thanks.
Can we use "d'habitude" at the beginning of a sentence?
"D'habitude, je ne prends pas le train."
Merci
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