miketuan

[obtuse gate]

Please be patient

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[long laurel]

for 5 to have been valid, the trigger phrase from c would have had to be le costume de la...

because secrétaire is feminine

[south mango]

I thought it could be both

[viscid fable]

Secrétaire can be of both genders but this exercise only considers the feminine one as evidenced by the letter F next to it.

[long laurel]

it can, but it has an f next to it in this exercise

[long laurel]

yeag

[south mango]

Oh my bad, I was totally blind

[viscid fable]

En vous aidant is the gerund form of s'aider.

In this instance, it expresses the means.