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Not really a French question, but how do you type a dash to get a "your answer matched mine" in the writing exercises? Even if I write exactly the same as the model answer, if the phrase begins with a dash the computer doesn't credit me with getting it right. Is it something to do with the number of spaces before or after? Or is there a type of dash I'm not using? 

Frustrating as I challenge myself to get 3 or 4 "matches" per exercise, but this means half of my attempts have no chance....

I think this lesson, and any question relating to it, should be removed until a clear lesson is written. 

Can 'suddenly' be translated as 'soudainement'? Reverso seems to think that there is such a word.

Thanks

il n'y a pas de meilleure saint Valentin 

What is the difference between mal and blesse?

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Please clarify why the second of the two options is not also grammatically valid ?

1) La fille dont il a tombé amoureux 

2) La fille avec laquelle il a tombé amoureux

Hi could you please explain the pronunciation of Marcher

1. The 'e' at the end of Matcher is clearly pronounced. I had understood that the final e of a word was not pronounced ... could you please clarify.

2. It sounds as if the 'ch' in marcher is pronounced exactly as an English 'ch' though I'd understood that a French 'h' is not pronounced. If the 'h' is not pronounced then 'c' should, according to the pronunciation rules, be pronounced as [s] or [k] depending on circumstances ... but this is not so.

Please advise Thank you

Why is this incorrect? 

They will have been experts in their field

Elles auront été .....

When I click on 'explain this' I see conjugation of avoir in future anterior. But the question said I should use être not avoir. One of the examples given has the same construction. Why cant I use avoir? I'm confused now how to form ' will have been. Advice appreciated 

Thanks 

lol this story. 

This is how clueless I am.  At reading the sentence about the missing ring I wondered at first;  "Did he steal a ring from her?"  It took this 61 year-old a minute to grasp that he took the ring in order to get her ring-size!  (I must admit, I would never have thought of that!)  Gary