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An Englishman (as distinct from an American) would say "five hundred AND thirty".

Please direct me to "The correction board if appropriate)

Line 11: on which professionals or amateurs can buy or sell.....

is being corrected to:

sur laquelle professionnels et amateurs peuvent acheter ou vendre........

1-  I am unsure of when to use "personnes" and when to use "gens."  I had, "Disons une trentaine de gens."

2-  Why is it "Ma mère adore le fruit de la passion et l'ananas"  with the definite article but "...mais les enfants préféreraient du chocolat"  ?

I thought this was a general opinion and therefore chose the definite article "le" for "chocolat," as well.

It seems strange that such a beautiful song should finish with the line “ In the shadow of your dog”. Chien can also be translated as charm eg avoir du chien. For what reason, therefore, is the final line not “ In the shadow of your charm”?

Bonjour! I have two questions related to the first sentence of this exercise. Firstly, why does the first part of the sentence translate to 'Lille is less than two hours away by train' when the original sentence to translate was 'Lille is less than a couple hours away' (i.e. no specific duration). Additionally, why do we use 'ce qui en fait' instead of 'ce que le fait'? Merci beaucoup! 

Thanks a lot, have to work a bit harder...

Is it correct to say "Il a encore besoin des oiseaux?  

Also, is it correct to say "De quoi est-ce Catherine a besoin?

the answer "Non, vraiment, ça ne me plaît pas du tout !"

should it not be "Non, vraiment, ça ne me plais pas du tout !"

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so I was doing a quiz on Kwiziq and the question was "C'est amusant." means: to which I answered "it is funny". It gave me an 'almost there' mark and I don't get why. It says the right one is 'This is funny'.