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Questions about how sums of money would be expressed in English are completely pointless.  They contribute nothing to learning French.  Don't be like Duolingo; don't waste peoples' time with idiotic time-wasting questions.  Everything else you do is wonderful.

Que l'admettes ou non, ce ne sont pas tes amis. Comment se fait-il que ce soit ce ne sont  pas tes amis plutôt qu'ils ne sont pas tes amis? 

I'm a little bit stumped as to why the text insists on use of the pluperfect instead of le passé composé?

E.g. mes sœurs et moi avions hurlé and nous étions allés à l'église locale.

Why is it not nous avons hurlé and nous sommes allés?

Merci en avance pour la réponse!

Questions about this topic, using the lesson examples:

Il a mangé de magnifiques gâteaux

He ate some magnificent cakes.

J'achète de beaux draps

I buy nice sheets.

Note that when the adjective is placed BEFORE a plural noun, the partitive article des (some) becomes de (or d' in front of a vowel or mute h). 

ATTENTION:
This rule doesn't apply when des is the contraction of "de + les" (= of/from/to the) :

J'ai acheté de nouvelles bottes

I bought [some] new boots.

My question is:  how is the 3rd example actually different from the previous two? How do we know that it would have be “de + les” and that they would not? Why wouldn’t they also have that option?

Merci  à l’avance!

I am not an astronomer but I believe the correct term for describing earth's movement around the sun is not "rotation" but "revolution."  I think it would be correct to say,

"...en fait, la révolution de la Terre autour du Soleil dure quelques heures de plus chaque année."

When I take the quizzes, the answers I choose aren't the ones showing when I get the review.  It seems the quiz is changing my answers.  Is anyone else experiencing this?

a specious explanation. Brushing of my hair!

Hi,

Is there a lesson that explains the difference between amener and emmener as I am always mixing them up !

Thanks

"La fois dernière" = Noun

"La dernière fois" = Adverb & noun

I got a question wrong, looked at this lesson again and got confused by the whole "followed by a clause" thing (tricky to remember) and I thought that maybe this would be a easier way for me to remember it but I don't want to be lead down the wrong track.