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Regarding Cathy's question, the two following answers were accepted as being correct with both là and y replacing 'dans une clairière'. The first was the answer given by KWIZIQ as the first choice.
1. je me repose là pendant quelques minutes.
2. je m'y repose pendant quelques minutes.
I understand that y can replace 'dans + place', and I often read that y and là have different meanings, but have never found a clear explanation as to when you 'can' use one or the other when referring to a place.
I would really appreciate someone explaining to me why both are correct.
Could somebody please rewrite the explanation of irregular 'e-less' adverbs, found under the example box of vraiment, etc, into shorter, clearer english?
Can we say je me suis toujours intéressé dans l’espace or en espace…. Pls explain
I am a bit confused about when an extra pronoun comes in to inverted question forms. I thought that "What does Paul want?" would be "Que Paul veut-il?". Similarly with "What are the children drawing?", I was expecting "Que les enfants dessinent-ils?
Can you say Tu n’y étais pas instead of Tu n’ étais pas là to mean You wern’t there?
The correct answer is: mais ce matin, j'ai reçu un email qui m'informait que cet article était à présent en rupture de stock
but why not .....qui m'a informé que cet article est à présent en rupture de stock.
Hi, I used "Je sais que l'on ne pourrait pas visiter tous les pays" - it was not correct BUT is it gramatically correct?
From Lawless page:
3) To avoid conAfter lorsque, puisque, and que, using l’on avoids the contraction and thus pronouncing (even silently inside your head) what sounds like the offensive word con.
In the suggested translations for 'that already makes two items', 'Cela fait déjà deux objets' is preferred over 'Ca fait déjà deux objets'. But since the register is informal rather than formal I had thought that 'ça' would be more appropriate. Or are there other reasons you might prefer 'cela'?
How to do Negation with Interrogation of Pronominal verbs?
Like in this sentence: Te laves-tu?
How to make this in negation?
I am searching for some pattern in the placement of an adjective when it modifies a noun also modified by a prepositional phrase. Our paragraph has two examples where the adjective, traditional, modifies such a noun. The first concerns "dinde rôtie aux marrons". There were a number of possibilities given for the position of traditionnelle including directly in front of dinde. The second usage is in the last sentence where traditionel modifies plats de Noël. Following the example from the first usage, I placed traditionnels in front of plats thinking that plats de Noël should be kept together. This was marked as incorrect and I see that traditionnels is placed in the customary position after the noun and in front of de Noël. Is there rule that one can apply to the placement of adjectives when they modify a noun also modified by some sort of prepositional phrase such as plats de Noël or dinde rôtie aux marrons ?
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