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Why isn't it

Aussiot que nous arrivions..

They are reminiscing and describing things so i didn't think passe compose 

In one quiz, a sentence reads  J'étais comme votre fils, jusqu'à ce qu'un jour, j'aille dans la bibliothèque de mon quartier,et que je me mette à dévorer les romans “Donjons & Dragons”. I filled the blanks correctly because the tips said to use the subjunctive, but I don't understand why the subjunctive is used here. "I was like your son until one day I went to the library ...", something that definitely happened in the past, so I would have written "je suis allé dans la bibliothèque ... et je me suis mis à dévorer ..." I'm also surprised by the second "que" before "je me mette". Can you give me some insight?

Le temps qu'il fasse demi-tour, il était trop tard. Pourquoi est-ce que demi-tour n'a pas une article? 

The first two sentences have similar structure, a salutation followed by a question or a declaration.   However, the first uses an exclamation followed by a question; whereas, the second uses a comma after the salutation and then continues making it all one sentence,   If you use the first sentence's pattern, i.e. using an exclamation instead of a comma, this is marked wrong.  Please explain, as this is a recurring issue..  Thanks

when writing about being somewhere, when do you use à and when do you use de? 

Dans les notes, le prof écrivait plusieurs fois "None of them are ....".  En fait, "none" en anglais est une contraction de "not one", si la bonne conjugaison du verbe en anglais serait "None of them is .....".

Hi Kwiziq

I utilise many different resources to learn French (including Kwiziq) and at least 2 translator apps - Reverso and French English Translator which check my French words and grammar to verify my learning, before I speak, write or read.  However, I often find these 2 apps give me different answers for the same phrases.    In this particular Kwizik test, I became frustrated because some of my answers were marked incorrect, despite my research before taking the test.  

Do you have any suggestions on which translator is the most reliable and one that Kwizik recommends?   I am a Premium Kwizik member and enjoy your model of teaching, however, I need to find a reliable translator.

Thank you.

Regards Jo

I learnt about the inverted question form and the inverted verb forms of quoi and how they work. Quoi becomes que or qu'. Additionally, I learnt about est-ce que and it uses the question word first and then the inverted verb and then the subject. 

 Any reason why we use restait allongées à as opposed to s'allongeait à ? 

I wrote : C'est là qu'elle aimait étendre sa couverture sur laquelle elle s'allongeait à rêvasser pendant des heures, but its not in the answers.

In the passage, ”...nous nous sommes tous assis pour partager un festin”, I only hear one nous.