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Ce sondage montrera plus de femmes.

Ce sondage montrera plus de femmes.
This survey will show more women.
From Lesson 138:The near vs. distant future·French

Questions & Answers about Ce sondage montrera plus de femmes.

Why does this sentence use montrera instead of va montrer?
Montrera is the futur simple (will show), which we use here because it is a prediction about what the survey will find. If we used the futur proche va montrer (is going to show), it would imply the results are already gathered and are about to be revealed right this second.
How do you build the future tense form montrera?
For regular -er verbs like montrer (to show), you form the futur simple by keeping the entire infinitive word and adding the future ending. Since Ce sondage acts as an it (third-person singular), we add the ending -a to get montrera.
Why is it plus de femmes and not plus des femmes?
After expressions of quantity like plus (more), moins (less), or beaucoup (a lot), French uses just de or d' instead of the full plural article des.
Why use Ce for This instead of Cet or Cette?
Sondage (survey) is a masculine noun starting with a consonant, so it takes Ce. You would use Cette for feminine nouns, and Cet for masculine nouns starting with a vowel sound.

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