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When to use de alone or when to use de with the article le or la - that is the question

How does this translate to "Chaque été, ma famille et moi..." ? 

"...nous passions nos vacances..." wasn't presented as a possible translation. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

Instead of saying, 'nous avons reste des predateurs', why couldn't we write, 'nous avons demure des predauteurs'?

I understand that the lesson is focusing on one skill but it would seem that if the student got the concept correct but used a different word that was correct, it should be accepted.  (unless of course demurer should not have been used in this lesson instead of rester).

Thank you!  I love Kwiziq (and I had sent an email previously about how some of the feedback from the lessons could be enhanced).

'As for "avoir peur", it's a fixed expression always followed by the preposition de (literally to have fear of), so when used with the definite article les, de + les contract into des :
Il a peur des chiens. => He's scared of (the) dogs. 
In the negative, as we said above, les remains the same, so it applies to its contracted form as well: Il n'a pas peur des chiens.'

Does this apply only to fixed expressions ending 'de' as in the case above?

I no longer get the written text to accompany the spoken words . I found it useful to be able to compare 

I want more  same questions to practice my vocabulary.