The question is:

Remplace par un pronom:
Est-ce qu'ils prendront beaucoup de temps?

No part of the sentence is highlighted or bolded, and I honestly have no idea where to even start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I'll send this to our French expert, SraJMcGin.

Since the directions say: "Replace by a pronoun" I would say that makes it very difficult! The subject is a pronoun already - ils. Are you studying "y" and "en?" It would be my guess that you are then to replace "beaucoup de temps" which would make the replacement: Est-ce qu'ils en prendront?

Sra (aka Mme)

To replace a part of the sentence with a pronoun, we need to identify which part of the sentence can be replaced. In this case, the part of the sentence that can be replaced is "prendront beaucoup de temps."

To determine the appropriate pronoun, we need to consider the number (singular or plural) and the gender (masculine or feminine) of the referent.

In this sentence, "ils" indicates the subject of the sentence, which is in the third person plural. The pronouns that can replace "prendront beaucoup de temps" are "le(s)" or "la(s)" depending on the gender of the referent.

Since we don't have any information about the gender of the referent, we will use the plural form, "les," which can be used to refer to both masculine and feminine subjects in the plural form.

Therefore, to replace "prendront beaucoup de temps" with a pronoun, we can rewrite the sentence as:

"Est-ce qu'ils les prendront?"