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I would like to know what the " l' " refers to in this sentence:   

Seriez-vous partis si je vous l'avais demandé? 

Would you have left if I had asked you?        

I can only surmise that it means something like: 

I’ll just echo the suggestion to add the context (e.g. as described by Chris) to this lesson. Prior to reading the context I was thinking “we don’t even use this tense in English”. After reading it I realised that of course we do use it, and I could understand where it could be meaningfully used. 

Est-ce que "Il soutient l'équipe de Paris..." est acceptable aussi? Quelle est la différence d'usage entre "soutenir" et "supporter" si il y en a un ?  

This question is not re the use of qui(subject) vs que(object) in relative clauses.

It is the concept as the lesson stated of  "If it refers to the whole part of the sentence, the whole idea, then it will be ce que/ce qui."

The examples in the lesson are pretty straightforward. 

But does the grammar rule "If it refers to a noun (expressed before), then you will use que/qui...TRUMP the 'concept' guidance.

In the sentence,"the oil,which was supposed to burn for a day, burned for eight days. ** Note the commas please **.  The 'which' clause is not really further describing the oil. It is not similar to "the oil which(that) I used". It is pertinent to the entire miraculous situation/idea . What was incredible was that the oil burned for eight days.. nothing about the OIL itself was incredible.

Even in writing this question, the  thought process gets tangled up between grammar rules and context. And here the context seem to defy the grammar rules.

Hello, today while watching the news I picked up the sentence:

on a isolé les murs au cas où nous devions rester longtemps.

I wonder why "devrait" is not used in this case.

And can we use e.g. /dans le cas où + sentence/ instead of /au cas où + sentence/ ?

Merci.

Bonjour,

In this example: Je n'ai pas compris ce qui a suivi.

What part of speech is ce qui?

Merci :)

Bonjour à tous - Why is there always a space between the last word of the sentence and the punctuation mark? Is that a French syntax thing or a quirk of this website? Thank you !

There were two cases in this exercise where I felt that my word should be acceptable but it was not given as an option:

1.Your answer: Janine était professeur de français avant; whereas mine was : Autrefois, Janine était....... Why would autrefois not be acceptable?

2. For such a short word, 'so' can be confusing. The English phrase was "so that wasn't too complicated!". Would ainsi be correct? I can imagine the english word 'thus' in this context.