Suggested additions and changes ?1. "In any case" - « en tout cas » is red-lined but should be accepted
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/case/568797
2. "I will soon be able to get by ..." - « bientôt » is red-lined, but is also correct here. It does not say "quickly/rapidly be able to get by...", - rapidement/vite are currently given as the preferred answers.
3. The previously, extensively discussed "heard that Isabelle IS going to try her luck ..." sentence needs to be changed. It should be, as has previously been noted, 'WAS going to try her luck'. This would then also fit with the lesson which only uses was/were examples to indicate the imparfait to be used here.
The English sentence in its current form is open to several interpretations - it is not French that is the issue here, it is the vagaries of English 'as it is spoke'.
J'allais + [infinitive] to express the near future in the past in French
For the first 2 options above, the suggestions agree with my wife's spontaneous first responses, and for the third, she immediately used imparfait but put a question mark over the use of 'is going to...' rather than 'was going to ... ' in the English sentence.
1. "In any case" - « en tout cas » is red-lined but should be accepted
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/case/568797
2. "I will soon be able to get by ..." - « bientôt » is red-lined, but is also correct here. It does not say "quickly/rapidly be able to get by...", - rapidement/vite are currently given as the preferred answers.
3. The previously, extensively discussed "heard that Isabelle IS going to try her luck ..." sentence needs to be changed. It should be, as has previously been noted, 'WAS going to try her luck'. This would then also fit with the lesson which only uses was/were examples to indicate the imparfait to be used here.
The English sentence in its current form is open to several interpretations - it is not French that is the issue here, it is the vagaries of English 'as it is spoke'.
J'allais + [infinitive] to express the near future in the past in French
For the first 2 options above, the suggestions agree with my wife's spontaneous first responses, and for the third, she immediately used imparfait but put a question mark over the use of 'is going to...' rather than 'was going to ... ' in the English sentence.
The "preferred" translation indicates that their son fell asleep "a poings fermes," indicating that he was deeply asleep. I dispute this -- kids may fall asleep with their fists closed, but not tightly unless they are under severe stress. I would suggest that a better indication of deep sleep would be the other suggestion - "il dormait profondement." This is from years of watching a number of sleeping children -- mine and others'. Just a thought....
What is the difference between J'était dormir and Je dormait? Are they both correct to indicate "I was sleeping"?
'la maison de poupées' is NOT 'the doll's house'. It is 'the dolls house' or, more pedantically 'the dolls' house'
I am 68 years old and a habitually bad speller on computers. Does Kwizik actually believe that constantly repeating a particular question is somehow going to improve my spelling on computers
Being in a line is not English for 'queuing up' ... even in your examples, you don't translate '..fait la queue ...' in this way.
I see that les Lettres and just Lettres (without the 'les') are both accepted as correct answers but then further on the 'les' cannot be left off when used with 'Lettres Classiques'. Is there a rule governing this usage ?
The correct spelling of connaitrais, should be connaîtrais, yes?
I notice that the preferred translation of 'which makes him the first Frenchman to be in charge of the ISS' is 'ce qui fait de lui le premier Français en charge de la SSI' rather than 'ce qui en fait le premier ...'. All the grammar books I look at say that en can stand for 'de' plus a person - but I can see that in practice 'en fait' for 'makes him' is almost never said in French. Is it just too literary for this kind of phrase?
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