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And what about the Negations of the examples given in this lesson? Are these correct for the Negative Imperative with Adverbial Double Pronoun -

With En -

- Ne t'en donnons pas! [Let's not give you any.] 

- Ne m’en parle pas!  [Don’t tell me about it.]

- Ne nous en parlez pas. [Don't tell us about it.]

With Y -

- Ne m’y emmenez pas! [Don't take me there.]

- Ne t'y amusez pas! [Don't have fun there.]

With Others -

- Ne me les donne pas. [Don't give them to me.]

- Ne nous l'envoie pas. [Don't send it to us.] 

I notice that the preferred translation of 'which makes him the first Frenchman to be in charge of the ISS' is 'ce qui fait de lui le premier Français en charge de la SSI' rather than 'ce qui en fait le premier ...'. All the grammar books I look at say that en can stand for 'de' plus a person - but I can see that in practice 'en fait' for 'makes him' is almost never said in French. Is it just too literary for this kind of phrase?

When combining conjugations like ne jamais and ne nulle part, do we keep the nulle part rule of going at the end of the clause?

Example:
Je n'ai jamais nulle part allé
Ou

Je n'ai jamais allé nulle part

I never went anywhere

Today, I got the same question: "Sarah ________ la salade à Michel," but this time the answer was "passe," with no reflexive pronoun!

The same question can NOT have different answers.  Please explain, this is driving me crazy!

Q1) Isn't this correct?

Vous m'y avez parlé. [You spoke to me there.]     (Parler à)

Q2) Isn't the scenario of Indirect Object Pronoun/COI with Adverbial Y possible? If not, why?? 

Q3) And similarly, vice-versa the scenario of Direct Object Pronoun/COD with Adverbial En is also not possible?? Hence, is it a rule that it will always be [COD + y] and [COI + en] in Double Pronouns??

Are they correct depending on whether 'en' means it (singular) or them (plural)?

1.  Pierre m'en a offert. / Pierre m'en a offerte.  [Pierre offered some of it/them to me.](If COD/Direct Object - 'en' - it/them)

2.  J'ai mangé des chocolats. --> J'en ai mangés. [I ate them.]

Are agreement rules applicable in Passé Composé for 'en' when it is a Direct Object Pronoun ?

  I’m wondering what pesant is grammatically in the sentence "Ces informations valent leur pesant d'or !" - a gerund? Or is pesant d’or a fixed expression?

Why is it "Mes fils ont toujours adoré cette tradition" ? If the tradition is ongoing with no start and finish should not the 'imparfait' be used here?

I learnt about the inverted question form and the inverted verb forms of quoi and how they work. Quoi becomes que or qu'. Additionally, I learnt about est-ce que and it uses the question word first and then the inverted verb and then the subject.