gender agreement

Question

il ne se passe pas une journée sans que elle ne fasse la tête. As ' il ne se passe' clearly refers to 'une journee', why is it not 'elle ne se passe'?

Accepted Answer

The impersonal pronoun "Il" is the subject of the first clause and the verb « se passer », une journée is the direct object, and as it follows the verb, there is no agreement with the object.
A couple of links: 
 
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/conjugate-reflexive-verbs-in-le-present-present-tense 
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/agreement-with-pronominal-verbs/

Answer

Hi Chris,My understanding of the translation is something like "Not a day goes by without her making (doing) the (la) face"So "elle" belongs to the subordinate clause introduced by the relative pronoun "que"."ne" is expletive.This is how I see it  --  I look forward to others' comments though.Jim