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In the sentence 'Depuis la Révolution Française à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, l'architecture de Paris était restée essentiellement inchangée' why is the pluperfect 'était restée' used rather than the imperfect 'restait' ?
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I have a few questions regarding this exercise:
1. The phrase 'je me suis sentie méprisée' - I was a little confused about whether to make 'senti' or 'méprisé' agree with the female speaker. In fact I got it wrong, as I see that both should agree. Could you explain the rule, or do you have a lesson I could look at for this?
2. what is the meaning of 'de l'instrumentalisation du vote barrage'?
3. what is the meaning of 'voter blanc'? I have a good idea but would be very interested to hear an explanation.
Thankyou once again, dudes of Lawless French for an interesting dictée, with some good new vocab.
Megan
Dans le texte, j'ai remarqué que "Liban" est parfois précédé de "Le", et parfois de La. Pouriez-vous clarifier cela? SVP.
Pourquoi c'est "ces deux pates sont mises delicatement ". Ils ont mise (avec accent?) Can you explain the reasonining behind ces deux pates sont ensuits mises delicatement. Thanks for your feedback.
Would it be possible to state that in writing structure, Spanish-French is more closely than English_French?
When do you use une in place of la in french
For example
he will say that he play football
he will say that he played football
he will say that he will play football
what are the rules for indirect speech when the main clause is future?
From the lesson «When talking about two actions that happen simultaneously, you will use :
en + Participe présent / Gérondif»; can you not also use imparfait and passé composé eg Je courait quand j'ai rencontré Mathilde ? I am not suggesting the same meaning or English translation, but the sentence still describes the simultaneous occurrence of events, that could also be described using le gérondif. If that is correct, the quote from the lesson should replace 'will use' with 'can use' (and preferably reference the lesson on passé composé and imparfait being used together as another). If there are reasons to choose one over the other, worth noting as well.
Is this correct?
Si je gagnerai au loto demain, j'achèterais une nouvelle voiture.
Should gagner be in future simple or present?
Why does the hint say "Note that with avoir as an auxiliary, past participles never agree with the subject of the verb?
I recently went over the lesson on cases in which the participles do agree, so maybe it should say "almost never"?
Special cases when the past participle agrees (in number & gender) when used with 'avoir' in the compound past in French (Le Passé Composé)
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