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Why is it, "Elle a monté les escaliers..." and not "Elle est montée les escaliers"?
It strikes me that the follow through implied in passé composé for devoir (had to, and did it) is similar to vouloir (wanted to, and did or tried to do it). Does that sound right?
Les enfants, curieux, ---I conjugated third person plural fureter as furettent. The correct conjugation is furetent [can't put accents here], but fureter is not on your list of eter and eler verbs that are conjugated in this way. Is this an oversight or am I missing something?
Is the singular 'différent' a mistake ?
There is a concealed difficulty in this lesson for English speakers who don't know how to congregate the irregular verb "hurt". The examples provided are very good and demonstrate the problem, but i needed a good English grammar book to correctly identify the problem.
hurt (v pr))
hurts (v pr3)
hurt (v pt)
hurt (v pp)
For: La police est arrivée trop tard.
In english, police and policemen are (la même chose) the same thing, plural nouns, yes? So why then is 'The police arrived too late.' a correct answer and 'The policemen arrived too late.' is not?
Si j'écris “ pourquoi il a soif ?”
Correct ou incorrect
I am 68 years old and a habitually bad speller on computers. Does Kwizik actually believe that constantly repeating a particular question is somehow going to improve my spelling on computers
C’était un peu du n’importe quoi- why isn’t it “c’était un peu de n’importe quoi “ ? I always thought that de was used after a quantity ?
I think I put "au sud de France"... I'm translating directly from English, but is there a reason why "in the south of France" becomes "du sud de la France"
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