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When do you use the definite article with countries and regions?There's a kwiziq lesson about this: Using le, la, l', les with continents, countries & regions names (definite articles)
But in the text, country and region names are never accompanied by the definite article. E.g., "Duché de Bretagne," "royaume de France," "couronne de France," etc.
Also, I translated "beforehand" as "à l'avance" instead of "au préalable," which I thought were the same thing, but it wasn't one of the accepted answers.
I have noticed that all the phrases use the pronouns, "le or la". As in:
"La fille dont le frere travaillait avec moi..."
"Francois, dont j'ai rencontre la femme..."
Is there any problem with saying the following for example?:
"La fille, dont son frere travaillait avec moi, a gagne le prix"
"La femme, dont son fils j'ai rencontre la semaine derniere..."
"Amelie, dont ses enfants sont venus chez nous, sont bien eleves"
In this lesson, Expressing Numbers from 70 to 999, the paragraph which begins "Note: Before the 1990 Spelling Reform, numbers including et as well as numbers higher than 100 didn’t include the hyphen...", has two examples, "deux cent" and "deux-cent", neither of which have "cent" written as "cents". They should have an "s" at the end shouldn't they, since they are not followed by another number?
Why dont we say that "J'ai entendu tout" like "Je comprends tout" but "J'ai tout entendu"?
When I did my quiz, with 'Ben _______ son train presque tous les jours.', the answer box was a drop-down question. When I got my results, this question was Almost There. The answer showed two different answers! If a question is drop-down, you can't select two answers at once, can you?
This is AO level? Of course I missed it.
The link to the right of play for the completed exercise says ‘all related grammar and vocab.’ When I follow it, I do see all the grammar topics covered. I do not see a list of vocabulary for the exercise though. No problem to look up unfamiliar words, but it might be nice to just make a list since it’s on the link. I didn’t know the work echelle in this exercise. Thank you!
In doing a translation exercise something was modified in English as being "the second most" + adj + noun (ex. the fifth richest county in the state). Could you add an example like to this lesson? Because how it's written in French turned out not to be a direct translation to English and it is not clear to me how to address a phrase like this from this lesson.
Hello, in the example "Au cas où vous vous demanderiez où elle est, elle est allée au marché" the translation is "In case you're wondering where she is, she went to the market." How would the sentence change if we want to say "In case you were wondering where she is, she went to the market."?
What about the example "In case you get hungry, I made you a sandwich", how can that be changed to "In case you were hungry, I made you a sandwich" in the French translation?
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