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Bonjour Madame Cécile !
I wanted to ask a query I came up while attempting this dictée ->
“Par chance, personne n'a été blessé”
Madame, why has the verb “être” been conjugated in Le Passé Composé ? However, Être is a verb of state and generally takes L’Imparfait.
Now, Madame, if a sentence is given -> The film was great.
There are two possibilities-
1. Le film a été merveilleux. 2. Le film était merveilleux.
How to judge whether a Verb of State takes Passé Composé / Imparfait ?
Merci encore Madame pour votre aide.
Je vous souhaite une bonne journée!
Bonjour,
Comment ça se fait que.... and Comment se fait-il que....
Are the above not interchangeable? I keep getting marked wrong when I use the second one.
Merci, Julia
Why is it "pas le monnaie" and not "pas de monnaie"??
Why is réussir à not used to express "passing an exam"? Merçi en avançe,
K H
The storyteller is a woman. So, why isn't it "Il m'a laissée tomber"? The direct object is a woman (feminine) and it appears before avoir in the passé composé.
Quelle est la différence entre une chandelle, un cierge and une bougie ?
In the sentence
Je savais de plus en plus ce que je voulais
Can't it be que instead of ce que
And since ce que is what which means noun why we used de plus en plus and why imparfait is used not passé composé? Also if there is a verb before the blank and a noun after what would we use de plus en plus or de plus en plus de ? If nothing is after then?
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