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Why une brosse a dents and not aux because dents is plural?

Hello, Can you please help me with this: "près de Madagascar et de l'île Maurice.". Why is it not "du île Maurice" ? because "de+le" = "du" isn't it?

a specious explanation. Brushing of my hair!

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.

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!

Hello, if "la perruque" is female, why its "noir"  and not "noire"?

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."

the logement hint is in the wrong section