OCTOBER 2010 - FRENCH test thread

<p>^ Right… so I was debating between “Je doute qu’il viendra avant mardi” and “Je doute qu’il sera ici avant mardi”. </p>

<p>Quelle est la bonne reponse, a ton avis? ;)</p>

<p>Hopefully it’s sera ice… :)</p>

<p>But really, it doesn’t make sense, it HAS to be subjunctive right? As in “soit”?</p>

<p>^^I’m going to e-mail my French teacher and ask. But I’d go with “viendra,” just because “sera ici” seems like a trick answer to trick unsuspecting English speakers since “sera ici” translates better.</p>

<p>But I’m pretty sure that subjunctive would be my first choice, futur anterieur would be my second choice, and I have no damn clue beyond that.</p>

<p>What were the other 2 choices?</p>

<p><em>racks brain</em> “Arrive” was another answer choice… can’t remember the other one but it was definitely wrong…</p>

<p>Are you 100% sure it’s wrong? 'Cause I’m writing an e-mail to my teacher and I think she’d prefer all 4 choices. But if you can’t remember, it’s OK.</p>

<p>Nope. Can’t recall anything beyond that… all I do know is that it was something very strange. Something that had to do with the past tense.</p>

<p>Like, past participle or past tense helping verb?</p>

<p>Something that ended in “-ait”… in any case, it was just wrong lol :p</p>

<p>The more you describe the choice, the more plausible it seems.</p>

<p>“-ait” could be these things:</p>

<p>Imparfait: No, definitely wrong
Conditional: Maybe?
Past conditional: Maybe?</p>

<p>Nah it wasn’t conditional. I even plugged it into the sentence to see if it would make sense, but it didn’t. :/</p>

<p>Any news from your teacher yet, 314159265? I know I did well on the other questions so I’m not too concerned if I turn out to be wrong on this one, but I’m still curious about it :p</p>

<p>Chances are, she won’t see my e-mail until Monday.</p>

<p>Yeah, the other two answer choices were definitely wrong. I can’t remember them either :(</p>

<p>@ 314159265: Alright. Be sure to update us then! :smiley: </p>

<p>@ AirForcePilot: Lol, well, at least it’s comforting to know that there’s someone who agrees with me on that one ;)</p>

<p>It wasn’t very hard but … for example I didn’t understood a thing in the Luis Vuitton text… was it about clocks or luggage? (I’m from Europe so… I’m sorry for my English :smiley: )</p>

<p>eeeeeee…guys…about that je doute qu’il…it HAS to be SUBONCTIF…nd ARRIVE is subjonctif…y does everyone say arrive is definitely wrong…i chose arrive because it is the only subjonctif…</p>

<p>e…that LV one…i wasnt 100% sure…but it was about une montre (a watch)…</p>

<p>TO SUM UP THE QUESTIONS: </p>

<p>1) ad for a store and the question : a) visit the store</p>

<p>2) eats the most bread (answer in text was agriculteurs) -Cultiveurs. </p>

<p>3) this woman singing, and i think the answer choices were paroles, murmures,etc. i guessed paroles idk tho… or did i guess murmures i dont remember tho :s which ones right?</p>

<p>4)LOUIS VUITTON ! first answer: UNE MONTRE.
5) LV: second: i dont remember… i think something about travellers mastering time… someone remember it?</p>

<p>6) dont remember Q: answers: que, pourve que,… i chose des que…</p>

<p>7) House building lady text :
answer of Q1 about it was : PIECES (i think)
8) Q2: who builds these houses? une compagnie renomm</p>

<p>will the curve be the same as in the CB book, or will it be different??</p>