"conjugated verb exclusion"I spent many dejected days trying to understand the following rule in this lesson. "the main difficulty here is that in French you cannot use a conjugated verb after la veille or le lendemain, unlike in English: the day after he left / the day before you were born.
Instead you will use de + noun, as such:'
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The imperative appeared out of the blue. (I am not using imperative here in the grammar sense by the way but as a prohibitory order) It also seemed contradictory, because the sentence, 'The day after, I was enrolling at university/ Le lendemain, j'allais m'inscrire à l'université. came right before it. ...a conjugated verb 'j allais' following lendemarin.
What seems to be the case is that 'le lendemain' or 'la veille' CANNOT be 'conjoined' with a descriptive clause or phrase for associated events WITHOUT punctuation. You identify the day using le lendemain or la veille but to add associated actions you must express them with a separate punctuated clause/phrase or use 'de + noun".
Examples:
the day after i was enrolling at university.../ le lendemain de mon inscription à l'université
the day after, I was enrolling at university...Le lendemain, je m'inscrivais à l'université.
I spent many dejected days trying to understand the following rule in this lesson. "the main difficulty here is that in French you cannot use a conjugated verb after la veille or le lendemain, unlike in English: the day after he left / the day before you were born.
Instead you will use de + noun, as such:'
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The imperative appeared out of the blue. (I am not using imperative here in the grammar sense by the way but as a prohibitory order) It also seemed contradictory, because the sentence, 'The day after, I was enrolling at university/ Le lendemain, j'allais m'inscrire à l'université. came right before it. ...a conjugated verb 'j allais' following lendemarin.
What seems to be the case is that 'le lendemain' or 'la veille' CANNOT be 'conjoined' with a descriptive clause or phrase for associated events WITHOUT punctuation. You identify the day using le lendemain or la veille but to add associated actions you must express them with a separate punctuated clause/phrase or use 'de + noun".
Examples:
the day after i was enrolling at university.../ le lendemain de mon inscription à l'université
the day after, I was enrolling at university...Le lendemain, je m'inscrivais à l'université.
My questions is why the correct answer is "une petite place..." instead of "de petite place" since it's after a negation.
...could we alternatively use something like “s'ils connaissaient quant à de cet achat?”
Can I take a full TCF sample test, to determine my current level?
I did not find this text very useful. Too much language that we are unlikely to encounter in everyday French.
I’m having difficulty with the sentence "Leurs témoignages ________ louches à la police.
(Their testimonies sounded dodgy to the police)Why isn’t the verb in l’imparfait rather than PC? It seems to me that the testimonies weren’t suddenly dodgy, it was something that continued
As an alternative to en bousculant les passants, couldn’t you say
En faisant les coudes aux passants ?
Please can you tell me how do I find a list of verbs which are followed by a ( sorry don't know how to do an accent on this question section) so I know when to use Lui and Leur?
Thank you
My teacher taught me that une robe blanc et noir would be une robe blanche et noire
How can one know when to end a male word like pneu the plural of s or x?
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