La Dune du Pilat Grammar question and size of Dune ?Thank you for this fun exercise. I had never heard of the Dune du Pilat. I looked it up and it is beautiful!
Grammar Question:
In the sentence:
"Comme son nom l'indique, c'est une immense dune de sable", where is the grammar lesson for using the pronoun " l' " in this case? The two pronoun lessons listed don't address this particular usage of the pronoun. Since there isn't a previous idea stated, what does the 'l' refer to? I seem to remember a lesson about this, but couldn't find it in the library. Would it be correct to say, "Comme son nom indique, c'est une immense dune de sable."?
Also, when I read, "Elle mesure environ 102 metres !", I was thinking of the length not the height.
Maybe the phrase could be amended to say, "Elle mesure 102 metres de hauteur." ?
Just for fun, here are the entire measurements from the Wikipedia page:
"The dune has a volume of about 60,000,000 m³, measuring around 500 m wide from east to west and 2.7 km in length from north to south (1.35 km2).[2][3] Its height was 106.60 m above sea level as of 2018."
Merci beaucoup !
Hi, the line “that her grandmother sent her” translates to “que sa grand-mère lui a envoyée” in the exercise, but should this be “que sa grand-mère lui a envoyé”. I.e. Should “envoyé” not pick up the extra feminine “e” because there is no COD before the verb, there is only a COI before the verb.
I don't find it helpful to learn how to conjugate in the passé simple (no plans to become a novelist). I keep getting passé simple questions in my quizzes, which is frustrating because the other C1 grammar is very useful and I want to master those things. Is there any setting that lets us include/exclude certain material from the quizzes?
"un jus de fruits bien frais." Would "jus de fruit" also be correct in the quoted phrase?
Thank you for this fun exercise. I had never heard of the Dune du Pilat. I looked it up and it is beautiful!
Grammar Question:
In the sentence:
"Comme son nom l'indique, c'est une immense dune de sable", where is the grammar lesson for using the pronoun " l' " in this case? The two pronoun lessons listed don't address this particular usage of the pronoun. Since there isn't a previous idea stated, what does the 'l' refer to? I seem to remember a lesson about this, but couldn't find it in the library. Would it be correct to say, "Comme son nom indique, c'est une immense dune de sable."?
Also, when I read, "Elle mesure environ 102 metres !", I was thinking of the length not the height.
Maybe the phrase could be amended to say, "Elle mesure 102 metres de hauteur." ?
Just for fun, here are the entire measurements from the Wikipedia page:
"The dune has a volume of about 60,000,000 m³, measuring around 500 m wide from east to west and 2.7 km in length from north to south (1.35 km2).[2][3] Its height was 106.60 m above sea level as of 2018."
Merci beaucoup !
Why is the reflexive form being used here?
Paul
Hi,
Can you kindly explain the use of the preposition in the following sentence.
In a phrase 'je t'aime de tout mon cœur' that translates to 'I love you with all my heart', why do we use preposition DE to express WITH rather more commonly use AVEC.
Kind regards, Kirill
Hi, I feel that the “p” sound is completely missing from “pour” in “pour l'infaillible soutien que vous nous avez montré ces dix derniers mois.”.
Is it missing? If so, is this an audio file error, or a genuine French way of speaking at the C1 level?
For future reference thoug... is this how I should ask if I were in a deli for instance. Instead of saying "vous" I use "on" ..thus avoiding the interpretation of "do YOU have" and correctly directing the question "do they (the cafe/deli) have?"... Seems a trivial point but I am curious.
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