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“Aiderez-vous ces éleves à répondre au questionnaire ?”

If I wanted to substitute pronouns for ces éleves and à répondre au questionnaire what is the word order?

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aiderez-vous les y répondre

But it looks wrong!

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The right sentence would be

Les aiderez-vous à y répondre ?

Note that the corresponding affirmative sentence is “Vous les aiderez à y répondre”. To form the corresponding interrogative, you only have to move the subject vous after the verb aiderez and tie them with a dash. Les is an object of aiderez and isn't affected by the process.

By the way, y only stands for au questionnaire so you still need the preposition à.

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    Y stands as usual for « au questionnaire », including the préposition à. The à that is left in the sentence is the one from aider à, not the one from répondre à.
    – Stéphane Gimenez
    Apr 25, 2014 at 20:58
  • Evpok, désolé mais je crois que la dernière phrase mérite plus d'explications. Je laisse mon commentaire.
    – Stéphane Gimenez
    Apr 25, 2014 at 21:14
  • @StéphaneGimenez Je ne vois pas ce qui te manque, mais si tu as envie de rajouter un truc, je t'en prie :)
    – Evpok
    Apr 25, 2014 at 21:17

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