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What is the capital of Tunisia?

“Trois derniers bulletins de salaire du mois de juillet, d’août et de septembre” or without “de”

In fact you can say both (source), but I find plural nicer .
Also, I think you should use plural (if anyone can confirm ?) :

Trois derniers bulletins de salaire des mois de juillet, août et septembre
Trois derniers bulletins de salaire du mois de juillet, d’août et de septembre

EDIT
This is different with

J’ai besoin du lait, du pain et du légume

Actually, it means

J’ai besoin de le lait, de le pain et de le légume

but we use “du” to contract “de le”, so if you remove from the enumeration “de”, the rule would say

J’ai besoin de le lait, le pain et le légume

which becomes

J’ai besoin du lait, le pain et le légume

so we don’t understand anymore which word is ommited (“de” here, which is not really in the first part of the sentence).

So you have to say :

J’ai besoin du lait, du pain et du légume

or

J’ai besoin de lait, pain et légumes

Note that légumes takes an “s” in the last sentence, because it is countable.

I would say months are numerable quantities (you can count them, and parse a series of name as you would for numbers 4,5,6).
But if you want to insist on the individuality of each, them you treat them as objects with “de” or “du mois de”.

 

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