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What is the meaning of grand-daughter in French?

In this lesson there is an example of passer in passé compose using être:

Ma tante est passée par la boulangerie... 

and using avoir:

Nous avons passé une bonne semaine...

I can't see an explanation for this and I'm confused

John

I have it in my notes that “après que” uses the indicative tense, so is there a reason why the subjunctive is used in this occasion ?

This is a sample sentence from this lesson: 

J'ai de plus en plus de mal à me concentrer.

I understand the more and more part.  As a student, without the translation, I would not have come up with I'm struggling more and more to focus.   I was seeing this as ... I have (more and more) pain myself to concentrate.  Is there a lesson on avoir mal a that talks about struggling?  If so J'ai de plus en plus de mal avec cette example! :)

Elle va acheter le poisson aujourd'hui du marché. Merci beaucoup.

Bonjour à tous et à toutes: 

J'aimerais savoir pourquoi on a utilisé le "de" devant le mot vie au lieu du mot "ma" dans la phrase ci-dessus.  Merci d'm'avoir aidé.  Don

In the lesson on simple Passive tenses an example is:

Les étudiants étaient accueillis par le directeur tous les ans.
The students were welcomed by the headteacher every year.

In this lesson, we have the example above: Elles ont été surprises par ...

They were surprised by ...

In both cases the English tense is the same, but it differs in French. Is it important, or can you choose whichever you prefer. 

Is "demie" feminine form (with the "e") because heure is feminine?  Merci.