Ce matin, elle en a trouvé une sous le sèche-cheveux
Aurélie
Kwiziq language super star
4/01/17
Bonjour Andy !
Yes, that's exactly how this sentence works literally.
In French, you need to mention the thing that the quantity refers to, otherwise something is missing (She found one what?).
See the related lesson:
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/the-adverbial-pronoun-en-means-of-them-with-quantities
I hope that's helpful!
Bonne Année !
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Andy
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3 January 2017
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Ce matin, elle en a trouvé une sous le sèche-cheveux
Hello. In the Week 29 B1 writing test, the above sentence appears as a translation for 'This morning, she found one under the hairdryer.' To begin with I was confused by the phrase appearing to have two objects. But after thinking about it could this sentence be read as: 'This morning, she found one (of them) under the hairdryer.' ~Thanks for your help
This relates to:
En can replace de + phrase (adverbial pronoun) -