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how do we know when a nationality used in a sentence is an adjective or a noun?
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Asked to translate, “ In the evening before a test “, I wrote, “La veille d’une épreuve” which was considered incorrect. The answer given was, “Le soir avant un exam”. Why was my answer wrong especially as “exam” does not feature in Harrap’s Shorter French And English Dictionary or Le Robert de poche. Test is translated as épreuve and examination is translated as examen. In a school context tests and examinations are different the former being of less importance.
Interesting. So why are there examples given wherein both actions take place in the future? Such as:
Après avoir fini ma dissertation, je commencerai mes révisions.After finishing my essay, I will start studying for my exam.
One of the question for this lesson was "During World War II, Charles de Gaulle was the architect of France's liberation."
May I ask by what wild stretch of the imagination could this be even remotely factual?
He was far more of a hindrance than a help.
It was the British and Americans who liberated France. All De Gaulle did was continually get in the way and create unnecessary problems.
He was nothing more than a self serving politician who ran away to hide in Algiers when the going got tough.
When learning a foreign language, I believe it is important to get the history of that country right.
Not directly related to the question of when to use the subjunctive, but is it correct that you would say "c'est ennuyeux qu'il soit parti" but, on the other hand, "il est important qu'il soit parti"? If so why the difference?
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