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Jan 07, 2014 - 03:14 AM
You are absolutely correct, the use of either sa or son is the possessive that agrees in gender the the object noun, in this case maison, because maison is feminine it will always be sa maison regardless of whether or not it belongs to a man or a woman. I assume you encountered this particular sentence in one of the matching exercises. You are correct that we do need context to determine the gender. So if there were two sentences and the first were Jim a acheté une maison, then we would know that the "sa" would refer to his rather than her.
Jan 07, 2014 - 03:33 PM
Thank you Mike, for replying and confirming this for me. Yes the sentence was in the matching exercise at the end of the lesson. Even though sa/son/ses was covered earlier in level 1, I think this was the first time I've encountered it without context.