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I have some questions with the clarification for the use of PENDANT.
As I have read in other grammar lessons, PENDANT is used to express the 'full duration' of a completed action IN THE PAST ... or the 'set duration' of an action to be done in the future. Pendant cannot be used for the present!
If this is the case then
a) would it help in clarification if some wording to that effect be added to the lesson for PENDANT, else based on the lesson someone could ask me "why cant I go into the kindergarten room? and I could answer " Les enfants dorment pendant une heure" ... which would be wrong...
b)the example sentence "Il court pendant une heure tous les matins/He runs for one hour every morning appears to be unnecessarily skirting that rule .. or at least adding a bit of doubt??.
Of course if there is no such restrictions please let me know.
Thank you!
'different' as an adjective ... before or after the noun and why?
merci
hi can you explain how to use tel and tellement please
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When I have done well on a quiz, there is often a comment regarding what I have "won". "Someone won something!" or, " Look at all you've won!" I was just wondering what am I winning or what have I won, and where is it being kept?
Why in the case of 'he admires his cat', we use the possessive to translate - il admire son chat, when often in French we translate with the article - le, la, les.
I know this is a simple question but what is the rule when do we translate with the possessive and when do we translate with the article?
"Sais-tu que Amy est mort?" - "Je ne le sais pas" OR "Je ne sais pas"?
According to the lesson saying that le replace ideas that are introduced by que, but "je ne sais pas" seem more commonly used
The lesson states that « que » always follows « Je trouve » yet « Je trouve que Halloween est... » is given as a right answer.
Who's there? Who is answering these questions? To whom am I addressing this note?
I would truly like those questions answered. I would also like to know why, when reviewing my incorrect responses on a quiz and tapping "discuss this" button, I'm directed back to the lesson that just taught me the incorrect answer. I want a reasonable discussion regarding my answer and why it was incorrect. Because, as far as I am concerned, the answer is correct according to the sentences in the lesson. Directing me back to those sentences just proves to me and my novice, uneducated mind that I am correct. -SLS
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