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This question comes up again.  In the corrections, "les maisons surmontées par une grande église" and "les maisons surmontées d'une grande église" are both suggested.  I thought "par" was closer to "by" in English and "de" was closer to "with."  Is this wrong?

Bonjour, 

Hello I was wondering for one of your example sentences you use le  not sur why not sur?

On aime aller se  balader  le weekend.

Thanks

Nicole

Just completely thrown by the imparfait/passé composé choices in this one. Before I started this course, I would have translated without hesitation "This has always been my favourite..." using the passé composé. However, mindful of "continuing activity in the past", I used the imparfait... and, as a result of that being wrong, thought, ok, I'll use the passé compose again at "I really wanted to see it on stage" (completed action in the past, surely?) - and of course that was wrong too. I'm really struggling to see what the logic is for using the particular tenses used here. The irony is, that if I'd followed my gut instincts and not thought about it, I'd almost certainly have got them the right way round!

Is it safe to say that with "an(s)" all of the numbers 1-10 are elisions except for quatre, cinq and neuf?

Hi,

In the sentence, "au point de faire systématiquement passer nos besoins avant les siens," please explain the usage of "passer" in this case. It doesn't follow the other examples used in the lesson.

Thanks