In this exercise, which asked to conjugate verbs in Plus-que-parfait, I wrote the following sentence: Marc lui avait souri et Gilles avait deviné tout de suite que Marc avait capturé son âme! My « avait capturé » was marked down and corrected to be « avaient capturé ». I cannot understand why a 3rd person plural conjugation is being used here instead of singular since the sentence talks about one person, Marc, who caught/captured Gilles’s soul.
Exercise “Un vrai coup de foudre”
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Julia,
I have just done the full exercise and all 11 answers were correct and as expected with appropriate agreements, including the final one “…. Marc avait capturé son âme “.
You may want to report the problem directly from the quiz to support for checking. If there was a glitch, it seems to have already been corrected.
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/tests/results/17053713/system
Chris Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Without link to the exercise or quotation of the full sentence I can't really help.
JuliaKwiziq community member
I did quote the full sentence above. But here is also the link to the exercise https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/tests/overview/14634318?utm_campaign=fr-FR_2024-04-25_1971683&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Exercise “Un vrai coup de foudre”
In this exercise, which asked to conjugate verbs in Plus-que-parfait, I wrote the following sentence: Marc lui avait souri et Gilles avait deviné tout de suite que Marc avait capturé son âme! My « avait capturé » was marked down and corrected to be « avaient capturé ». I cannot understand why a 3rd person plural conjugation is being used here instead of singular since the sentence talks about one person, Marc, who caught/captured Gilles’s soul.
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