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Why "s'illumine de lumieres colorees" and not "des lumieres colorees"?
I understand that "des" becomes "de" when the adjective precedes the noun that it is modifying, but in this case "colorees" is after "lumieres".
I gave elle s’assoit avec son fils but this was corrected to elle s’assois which isn’t the 3rd person .
Could you not answer Oui j'y crois ??
I answered "je n'en ai aucun". Is this not correct as well as just "aucun" ? The example that Celine gives below seems to indicate that's an option.
Why is it "Tarte au Maroilles" and not "Tarte aux Maroilles"?
Pourquoi manque-t-il l’article au nom de Haïti ?
I'm being very picky with the punctuation here (but then again the little robot is often very picky about my punctuation, especially in the dictations haha). In the first sentence there should be a comma (and not a full-stop) in between "un petit déjeuner différent" and "ce qui peut rendre les matins un peu compliqués". (The corresponding English sentence did have the comma here.)
Hi,
I think i'm beginning to understand this part of the section of adjectives with complements. I made a sentence une langue difficile a apprendre. is that coorect to write and I also wrote un garcon courageux comme un dragon.
thanks
nicole
What is the mood and tense of Qui l'eût cru?
Martin hasn't been here for long
This suggests Martin is still here, thus the present tense should be used. Given answer is-Martin n'est pas arrivé depuis longtemps.
Compare this with the previous question:
We haven't lived here very long- Nous n'habitons pas ici depuis longtemps.
Have I mis-understood something?
John M
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