Breakdown of Il achète le vieux château et le transforme radicalement en l'espace d'une décennie.
une
a / an (feminine)
il
he
et
and
acheter
to buy
le château
the castle
vieux
old
le
him, it (masculine direct object pronoun)
transformer
to transform
en l'espace de
within the space of
la décennie
the decade
radicalement
radically
Questions & Answers about Il achète le vieux château et le transforme radicalement en l'espace d'une décennie.
Why use en l'espace de here instead of just en to say 'in a decade'?
Why is the second le placed right before transforme?
Could we put the adverb radicalement before the verb, like in the English 'radically transforms'?
No, French word order is strict about this. Unlike English, French adverbs almost never go between the subject or object pronoun and the conjugated verb. The adverb radicalement must directly follow the conjugated verb transforme.
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