Old email

The following is an old email message I received when I was studying French with Eva. She is not a native French. However, her profession is to teach English and German.
This was some 5 years old email.
My question is on grammatical aspects of it. Did she write correctly?
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Salut tout le monde!
Je suis desolé de mon absence le mercredi dernier. Maintenant je me sens
beaucoup mieux.
Mercredi le 13 décembre on aura le dernier test. On se voit à 18.00 dans
la salle Rotund.
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The word 'Rotund' is just a name.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Vonhalmen on December 12, 2009 at 8:29pm

Salut tout le monde !
Je suis désolée de mon absence mercredi dernier. Maintenant, je me sens beaucoup mieux.
Mercredi 13 décembre, on aura le dernier test. On se voit à 18h dans la salle Rotund.

--> désolée since she is a woman.
--> le mercredi dernier
--> "Mercredi 13 décembre, ...." OR "Mercredi, le 13 décembre, ...." BUT NOT "Mercredi le 13 décembre, ...." (the comma is very important, as you can see)

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on December 12, 2009 at 8:45pm

Marc -- presumably in your variety of French you'd also say "Le mercredi 13 décembre"?

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Permalink Reply by Cedrick on December 12, 2009 at 9:07pm

You should rather say désolé pour mon absence de mercredi. Maintenant, je me sens beaucoup mieux.
MErcredi 13 dec aura lieu la derniere evaluation.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on December 12, 2009 at 10:00pm

I thank everybody for the replies.

Cedric wrote the following:
Mercredi 13 dec aura lieu la derniere evaluation.

Mercredi 13 décembre, on aura le dernier test. [ So the word 'on' is an overkill here.]
Please tell me.
She wrote the word 'test'. It seems the most appropriate French word is 'evaluation'.
In English, I would write ' the final examination/test will be held on 13th December'.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Vonhalmen on December 12, 2009 at 11:59pm

@Neil: Indeed, "Le mercredi 13 décembre" is fine as well, thanks for pointing that out.

@Crack1: in the sentence "Mercredi 13 décembre, on aura le dernier test", the word "on" is indispensable, since it is the subject of the verb "aura". However, in the sentence "Mercredi 13 décembre aura lieu le dernier test" the subject is "le dernier test", and the verb is "aura lieu" ("will be held").

The word "test" is perfectly correct, so is "évaluation". Or also "examen". Note: instead of "dernier" one would rather use "final" for a test.

Mercredi 13 décembre aura lieu le test final / l'évaluation finale / l'examen final.

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Permalink Reply by Cedrick on December 13, 2009 at 1:26pm

I'm sorry to say this but in French it is frequently advised no to use the word "on " although it is very handy to translate the passive voice. If you want ot keep the "on" in that case you ought to write: Mercredi, on aura notre dernier contrôle. Sorry if I sound a little bit fussy, here.