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Could the following phrase given above:
Merci à Léa et Julie, sans l'aide desquelles rien n'aurait été possible
also be phrased as:
Merci à Léa et Julie, sans desquelles rien n'aurait pu etre possible
"Quand elle aura des enfants, elle changera d'avis."
Usually we use 'changer de + noun' as a rule. So if I say '"...elle changera de son avis." Why is that incorrect? ....to say... "...she will change her opinion/mind."
in this sentence from a roman policier La salle des meurtres by Phyllis Dorothy James
L’appartement, qui donnait sur Kensington High Street, arborait l’ordre excessif et impersonnel d’un logement préparé pour la visite de nouveaux locataires. L’atmosphère était un peu confinée ; bien qu’occupant un étage élevé, Dupayne avait pris la précaution de fermer ou de verrouiller toutes les fenêtres avant de partir en week-end.
Here bien que was not followed by subjonctif ! is that correct ? and would you replace it by bien qu'occupant un étage élevé, Dupayne ait pris la précaution .....
Pourquoi on utilise le subjonctive avec cette phrase:
Ce sont les meilleures vacances qu'elle ait passées !
Mais pas avect celle-ci:
Ces chanteurs sont les pires que j'ai écoutés !
Je note l'explication qui suit:
Therefore, Le Mode Indicatif can only be used in such cases where the sentence refers to established true facts or statements.
Why wasn't on se voit used for "see you this week-end ?"
Why is this incorrect? Il est aussi riche qu'ils
Why is "il est vert" unacceptable for a translation of "It is green."?
I believe "avant que" takes the subjunctive. Since this is a memory from the past, shouldn't we use the past subjunctive?
Judging by the comments below and my own experience of this lesson i think it could still be tweaked to improve it. It think it would be helpful to:
* add - write out - relevant (new to some) vocabulary for decimals, commas and currencies
* emphasise how the rules for writing numbers in French are the same (or different) when used for currencies vs other contexts
* provide and describe a few more complex examples, including the outliers (eg uncommon use of a decimal point in French), with at least one example of a French number which translates to three or more decimal points in English. The latter would be very useful because it highlights how our Eng/French translation brain can get confused (evident in these discussions) because it looks identical to the English version of numbers in the thousands.
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