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When do you use avoir and when do you use être in the past tense?

Most verbs use avoir, but there are a specific group of verbs that take être as their auxiliary verb in not just the past tense, but in all of the compound tenses (such as the pluperfect tense).

Answered by Danielle M. • French tutor

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When do you use the relative pronoun que/qui/dont?

Qui functions as the subject in the sentence and is preceded by a noun or a pronoun. Qui replaces the subject. A simple way of knowing when to use qui is that it is followed by the verb directly e.g. c...

Answered by Danielle M. • French tutor

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What kind of books should I read that would look good on a personal statement/when discussed in an interview?

The most important thing about your reading is that you enjoy and are interested in subject that you are reading about. There is absolutely no point in picking up a book that bores you to death for severa...

Answered by James P. • Medical School Preparation tutor

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How does gel electrophoresis work to separate DNA fragments of different lengths and how may the lengths of the different strands then be determined?

The process of gel electrophoresis uses the fact that DNA fragments are negatively charged (due to the bulky, negative phosphate groups within the sugar-phosphate backbone) in order to pull the fragments ...

Answered by James P. • Biology tutor

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In what ways does Virgil present Dido as an increasingly desperate individual in these lines? How does he communicate to the reader that the outcome will be disastrous for her?

When approaching a 25 mark question such as this the most important advice to remember is: argue from evidence. Every point you make must be backed up by the latin text, preferably with a...

Answered by Ben G. • Latin tutor

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