French language Q&A Forum

I was just going through the listening practice liked to below. The first sentence is:

Les soldes d'hiver de cette année se sont révélée.

And the word soldes doesn't sound right to me. Is it just me?

https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/408

I have to say I start to sweat when this question shows up on my tests, because I will ALWAYS get it wrong.  I have read the lesson over and over and it seems like I will decided that I should use c'est because there is a determiner, but then it tells me to use elle or il.  Then I use il or elle because there isn't a determiner and it will tell me to use c'est.  I feel like all the lessons help me, and I see my mistakes, but this one is not helping me.  Any other way to explain this to me?

Why do you say 'Il a des yeux bleu clair' but 'la tenue est bleu marine', and not bleu marin?

In some cases, I chose other words which were not accepted.  In particular, 'valide' instead of 'valable', 'choix' instead of 'options', and 'avoir l'intention de' instead of 'prévoir'.   In the context, were these incorrect, not the best choice, or just synonymes?   Thanks for all of your help.  The question and answer section is quite beneficial! 

I’m interested to know if this common usage of "a present tense for the immediate future" has a snappier grammatical name in either English or French? Also just to check I have this right: it’s an informal way to talk about events that are both soon and definite.

I conjugated Elles font and was told that Elles fait is correct. I don't think think that is true. Could you please examine that question and explain the answer to me?

When is "we went into (the garden)" "Nous sommes sortis dans le jardin" and when is it "nous sommes allé dans le jardin"  The former is used in this exercise but the latter was  used in the first exercise "A day with granddad" 

do you only use rendre when talking about visiting a person?

Could this be elle va être?