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« Les cloches sont passées ce matin pour apporter les œufs de Pâques » but in the other quizz « Il a passé l’hiver dernier à Chamonix ». In my mind it should be avoir in both sentences.
Bonjour à tous, je ne comprend pas ce phrase: "Il découvre en Juliette"? Pourquoi il y a "un" après le verbe "découvre"?
Merci beaucoup à l'avance!
I cannot find specifically in Progress/KwizIQ section a lesson or description of compound tenses but to date all the examples I have seen use Passé Composé, or a couple of examples of Pluperfect as in this lesson. There is an extended review of compound tenses on the Lawless site itself. It would be useful to link to information on all the compound tenses/moods here. Alternatively, at least, include in this and any other compound tense related lessons, a line or two confirming (or otherwise) that the rule discussed is general to all compound tenses and moods.
I just wanted to confirm that "cet après-midi" would have also been acceptable ? I didn't realise it, but there seems to be a polemic about the gender of après-midi, it can apparently be either masculine or feminine, but l'Académie favours the masculine.
Does that seem reasonable in the context of this dictée ? Any other comments anyone ?
Thanks, Paul.
see this link
https://forum.lefigaro.fr/forum/affich-490-cet-ou-cette-apres-midi
Ces fêtes ________ incroyables.
It seems to me both Imparfait and Passé Composé could be used here, for different meanings.
"Ces fêtes étaient incroyables." Those parties [which happened regularly, a long time ago] were amazing.
"Ces fêtes ont été incroyables." Those parties [which were not long ago, and which happened only once (e.g. in a specific summer)] were amazing.
One of the questions turns the sentence about dolphins into a question: Saviez-vous que les dauphins sont des mammifères? Could you say why "sont" isn’t concordant with "saviez"? In your article on this subject it says "You can't use the past tense in the main clause with the present tense in the subordinate - the latter must be in the past as well: "Il ne savait pas que j'étais professeur (He did not know that I was a teacher)" Thanks!
I used "une antilope aura chasée par un lion" withe the correct answer being "sera chassée" I thought it was always futur anterior after quand? I can see there are examples in the lesson but I am not clear when each one is used.
Technically, you cannot use the near future for weather forecasting. A forecast is a prediction; therefore, the future simple should be used. The only grammatically correct way to use the near future for weather is when you are outside, the wind whips up, storm clouds roll in with thunder/lightening...then, you can say (in English, French, or Spanish) that it's "going to rain". Perhaps in very colloquial language the near future is used for weather forecasts, but it is wrong, and this should be clearly noted in the lesson.
Just checking, the number of minutes are written out in full in all the examples - is there ever a situation in French where numerals are written instead? eg 23 instead of vingt-trois.
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