French language Q&A Forum

I have encountered this acronym a few times in the Q&A Forums, for example: 'Only if the COD appears before the past participle ...'  I have also searched the wonderful KWIZIQ site without success.  Can someone tell me what COD means?

This strikes me as strange phrase.  Can you explain a little how the parts semantically make up the whole?  Thanks!

please direct me to a lesson on how/when to use passé composé with imparfait in a sentence

Underground galleries is translated as galleries souterraines 

- a check of the french spelling shows only one 'l' in galerie.

And we cooed over all.... 

can we write et nous avons recoulé sur tous les cadeaux ?

After eighteen months of study I still can't really understand this. 'Les Français mangeaient les escargots' seems to be ok as an alternative to 'des escargots'. But 'Tout ce qui ressemble à la viande rouge' as an alternative to 'de la viande rouge' is not. To me it's the same kind of statement; and to have to say 'ressemble à de la viande rouge' sounds like 'resembles some red meat'...

I find it inconsistent that at one point the text says 'en alternance avec de tulipes pourpres' while later it says 'l'éclat des soucis orange'.

Is there a reason why the second phrase isn't 'l'éclat de soucis orange' - or would that have been equally acceptable?

Quels sont les legumes de soleil ? J'ai cherche partout, mais je n'ai pas trouve cette phrase. Tous les legumes ont besoin de soleil, donc je me demande si ces legumes sont des legumes d'ete, peut-etre ? 

Merci !