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Am struggling to understand why the answer uses the present subjunctive of etre.
Thanks for any help!
Why is it "C'est là que j'ai appris" and not "C'est là où j'ai appris"?
Hello again - some more queries. Looking especially for nuances in meaning/usage:
1. Why "bienvenue" and not "bienvenu"?
2. Instead of "j'aimerais annuler une commande" would it be acceptable to say "je voudrais annuler une commande"?
3. instead of "j'ai passé ma commande" would it be acceptable to say "j'ai placé ma commande"?
4. "j'attendrais patiemment votre prochaine livraison." Is "j'attendrais patiemment pour votre prochaine livraison" ever correct?
Thanks in advance. Love your work!
Best wishes
Ian
There is a lesson named "Le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur, etc = Ours, yours, theirs (possessive pronouns)", in which there is a sentence as "J'aime bien ta voiture, elle est mieux que la leur" which now seems perfectly convincing as "mieux" is used ingeneral statements with être. However, when we think of "pire", it seems partly as the correspondant of "mieux" since it is used when we are talking about general statements with être and to this respect, I anticipated that "mieux" should be used in the sentence "Ces voitures sont les pires du monde/Ces voitures sont les plus mauvaises du monde.". This sentence is given as an example of the rule "qualifying something as bad/worse/the worst at what it does", but it seems to me that this sentence is comparing "these" cars with the other ones in the world in a general context.
reverso gives an etre and an avoir form for grossir. As this is intransitive in the sense that he has put on weight himself, I assumed it was the etre form? You marked it wrong.
Why is à laquelle correct and à qui wrong in the above?
Is “Il ne vous reste plus que” a phrase?
I don't understand why 'je suis en classe' is correct but 'Sarah est en classe' is incorrect
In a French blog that I was reading, I came across a lot of "qu'apprendre". For example, "beaucoup de Français pensent qu'apprendre un langue..." or "beaucoup de Français trouvent qu'apprendre l'anglais..." or even "études ont monté qu'apprendre une langue étrangère" - so I assumed that if "que + verb" then the verb would be in the infinitive. But I could not find this confirmed by lawlessfrench.com. Could someone clarify if que + verb require the infinitive?
- Merci!
This link tells me that the spelling for le future simple conjugation of appeler is single “l”. Please have a look. Merci! https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/verbs/appeler
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