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If "ai" is pronounced as "e" what about "eu" "au" "aux" "œ"... ??

Bonjour Madame Cécile !

Sorry for asking another query on tenses but this is my last question to reassure my concept-

• Aussitôt que vous _________( ne pas se sentir bien),vous __________( prendre) un médicament. [ Fill with appropriate past tenses] { Le Passé Composé/ L’Imparfait/ Le Plus-que Parfait }

I find the following cases correct ->

1. Aussitôt que vous ne vous êtes pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.

2. Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous aviez pris un médicament.

But I presume that the following case does not sit well after I plotted the actions on the timeline I designed ->

Aussitôt que vous ne vous étiez pas senti bien, vous avez pris un médicament.

What does the above sentence signify Madame ? 

It represents a situation where a person had felt ill and then he took a medicine and hence is inaccurate.

Je vous remercie du fond de mon cœur .

Bonne journée! À bientôt !

Depuis   It can only be used to express a duration of time that started in the past and still continues in the present, or "that both started and stopped in the past." Pendant can be used to describe something that happened in the past, or the future, with" no relevance to the present time". 

The above are excerpts from Todd’s answer below marked “correct”. Could someone please explain the parts within inverted commas that I find confusing. The definition of ‘Depuis’ states ‘the action is ongoing’. So, how can it have ceased in the past?  The other statement was relating to Pendant. The lesson explains that it could include the present too! 

Pourquoi faut-il parler si vite? C'est tellement plus difficile à comprendre.......vraiment!!!

I do not understand this one.  Rendre means "to return"? so this means "You returned to visit Paula" but it states "You visited Paula".

thanks for a clarification,

Rose

Bonjour! Thank you for this great lesson and video about using "en!" I have a question about whether or not it's acceptable to repeat the noun when it's in a quantity phrase. To illustrate, for the sentence Elle apporte une bouteille de vin, which one of these is correct, or are both acceptable: Elle en apporte une bouteille. / Elle en apporte une.  I have a similar question with the phrase "des tranches de." My guess is that since "des" is a partitive, the noun "tranches" wouldn't follow the verb because "en" replaces the whole "des" phrase, but I'm not 100% sure. So Il mange des tranches de gateaux would become "Il en mange" and not "Il en mange des tranches"? Or are both acceptable? 

A small question.  Tiers-Monde or tiers-monde ?

Should Tiers-Monde really be  capitalised ?

I've looked at 3 dictionaries and it is spelt in lower case in all of them.  If I was taking an exam , would either answer be acceptable ?

Any general rules about this ?

Thanks , Paul.

c’est le résultat de l’entreprise qui affecté ... the most heavily and I wrote la plus lourdement since l thought the company was the most heavily affected. L’entreprise is feminine hence my use of la vs le. Why was this wrong? Thanks for your help!

There are two examples of synonyms being used in the transcript, instead of the exact words articulated in the video:

1) À quoi ça sert de "recycler" ses déchets? À quoi ça sert de "trier" ses déchets?

2) Sans doute, mais c'est "quand" même très utile. Sans doute, mais c'est "tout" même très utile.

Why?