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Sentences like this make me loath French grammar:

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When the noun phrase or pronoun heading a relative clause is the implied object of a preposition in that relative clause, and is futhermore animate, the normal relative pronoun to use is qui (except when the preposition is de - see 15.6 below)…

-from French Grammar and Usage by Hawkins and Towell

Really. Read that about ten times over and see if you can understand it. I hope I’m not the only one that struggles.

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1 Roisin
1 year, 7 months ago.

nope, i thought i got it, but i don’t!

how’d your exam go mon am??
xx

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