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doesn't belle-mère and beau-père also mean mother-in-law and father-in-law? I've never heard of them being the step-parents
Are we supposed to use definite articles with adorer,Aimer, detester and préférer verb instead of partitive articles?
J'aime les fruits
J'aime des fruits
Which one is correct?
I never get this right. Please, is there a summary of when we would not write the "s" at the end of the tu form verb in l'imperatif ?
Thank you!
Bonjour Johnny !
"Comment cela se fait que ... ?" can indeed be used by some French people, however it's grammatically incorrect as the way to construct the elegant form is through the use of the inversion "-il", and NOT cela.
You can also encounter "Comment cela se fait-il que ... ?" which is simply redundant, as it literally means "How come this that ...?"
However, given the fact that some people do use that incorrect form, I decided to change our marking to Half Correct, as we still aim to teach the correct French ;)
I hope that's helpful!
À bientôt !
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