The Everything French Grammar Book,9781593375287

The Everything French Grammar Book

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Edition: Bilingual
ISBN13: 9781593375287
ISBN10: 159337528X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-30
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

The Everything French Grammar Book provides readers with easy-to-follow lessons on the rules, syntax, and sentence structure of the French language. From punctuation to pronouns, this handy reference walks readers through the basics of proper French speaking. Step-by-step instruction, fun reinforcement exercises, and clever mnemonic clues help readers master conjugation, tense use, and sentence structure quickly! Complete with verb charts, The Everything French Grammar Book is the perfect reference for the Gallic enthusiast.

Author Biography

Laura K. Lawless is a French and Spanish speaker, in addition to being a freelance writer, editor, and translator

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to French 1(10)
French Language Classification
1(1)
French Speakers
2(2)
French in English
4(1)
Why Learn French?
5(2)
True Cognates
7(1)
False Cognates
8(3)
CHAPTER 2 Nouns and Articles 11(12)
Introduction to Nouns
11(2)
Gender and Number of Nouns
13(2)
Definite Articles
15(1)
Indefinite Articles
16(2)
Partitive Articles
18(2)
Exercices de contrôle
20(3)
CHAPTER 3 Adjectives 23(14)
Introduction to Adjectives
23(2)
Making Adjectives Feminine and Plural
25(2)
Demonstrative and Indefinite Adjectives
27(3)
Interrogative and Exclamative Adjectives
30(1)
Position of Adjectives
31(3)
Exercices de contrôle
34(3)
CHAPTER 4 Pronouns 37(14)
Introduction to Pronouns
37(2)
Subject Pronouns
39(3)
Stressed Pronouns
42(2)
Demonstrative Pronouns
44(2)
Indefinite Demonstrative Pronouns
46(2)
Indefinite Pronouns
48(1)
Exercices de contrôle
49(2)
CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Verbs 51(10)
Conjugating French Verbs
51(1)
Tense, Mood, and Voice
52(3)
Verb Forms
55(1)
Types of Verbs
56(2)
Pronomial Verbs
58(1)
Exercices de contrôle
59(2)
CHAPTER 6 Present Tense 61(16)
Using the Present Tense
61(1)
Regular Verbs
62(2)
Stem-Changing Verbs
64(6)
Irregular Verbs
70(3)
Reflexive Verbs
73(1)
Exercices de contrôle
74(3)
CHAPTER 7 Irregular Verbs 77(14)
Aller-To Go
77(1)
Avoir—To Have
78(1)
Devoir—Should, Must, To have to
79(1)
Être—To Be
80(2)
Faire—To Do, Make
82(1)
Pouvoir—Can, To be able to
83(2)
Savoir and Connaitre—To Know
85(1)
Venir—To Come
86(1)
Vouloir—To Want
87(1)
Exercices de contrôle
87(4)
CHAPTER 8 Simple Verb Tenses 91(12)
Imperfect—l'imparfait
91(1)
Future and Conditional—le futur et le conditionnel
92(3)
Present Participle—le participe présent
95(1)
Past Participle-le participe passé
96(2)
Simple Past (Preterite)—le passé simple
98(2)
Exercices de contrôle
100(3)
CHAPTER 9 Compound Verb Tenses 103(10)
Auxiliary Verbs—les auxiliaires
103(1)
Compound Past Tense—le passé composé
104(2)
Pluperfect (Past Perfect)—le plus-que-parfait
106(1)
Future perfect—le futur antérieur
107(1)
Conditional Perfect (Past Conditional)—le conditionnel parfait
108(2)
Summary of Compound Tenses
110(1)
Exercices de contrôle
110(3)
CHAPTER 10 Mood and Voice 113(12)
Introduction to Mood
113(1)
Imperative—l'impératif
114(1)
Subjunctive—le subjonctif
115(3)
Past Subjunctive
118(2)
Voice—la voix
120(2)
Exercices de contrôle
122(3)
CHAPTER 11 Questions 125(12)
Introduction to Questions
125(2)
Yes—No Questions
127(1)
Interrogative Adverbs
128(1)
Interrogative Adjectives
129(2)
Interrogative Pronouns
131(3)
Exercices de contrôle
134(3)
CHAPTER 12 Negation 137(12)
Ne...pas and other Negative Adverbs
137(2)
Ne Without pas
139(2)
Pas Without ne
141(1)
Saying Yes and No
142(1)
Negative Adjectives
143(1)
Negative Pronouns
144(1)
Exercices de contrôle
145(4)
CHAPTER 13 Prepositions 149(14)
Introduction to Prepositions
149(1)
À and De
150(3)
Temporal Prepositions
153(1)
Geographical Prepositions
154(3)
Verbs with Prepositions
157(4)
Exercices de contrôle
161(2)
CHAPTER 14 Objects and Adverbial Pronouns 163(10)
Direct Objects
163(2)
Indirect Objects
165(1)
Adverbial Pronoun Y
166(2)
Adverbial Pronoun En
168(1)
Double Object Pronouns
169(2)
Exercices de contrôle
171(2)
CHAPTER 15 Clauses and Conjunctions 173(14)
Introduction to Clauses
173(1)
Si Clauses
174(3)
What is a Conjunction?
177(3)
Relative Pronouns
180(1)
Indefinite Relative Pronouns
181(2)
Exercices de contrôle
183(4)
CHAPTER 16 Adverbs 187(14)
Introduction to Adverbs
187(3)
Adverbs of Manner
190(1)
Adverbs of Quantity
191(2)
Comparatives and Superlatives
193(3)
Placement of Adverbs
196(2)
Exercices de contrôle
198(3)
CHAPTER 17 Agreement 201(10)
Agreement of Adjectives
201(2)
Agreement of Pronouns
203(1)
Être Verbs and Passive Voice
204(2)
Agreement with Direct Objects
206(1)
Agreement with Pronominal Verbs
207(2)
Exercices de contrôle
209(2)
CHAPTER 18 Presentatives and Determiners 211(10)
Introduction to Presentatives
211(1)
C'est and Il est
212(2)
ll y a
214(2)
Voici and Voilà
216(2)
Introduction to Determiners
218(1)
Exercices de contrôle
219(2)
CHAPTER 19 Possession 221(8)
Possessive Adjectives
221(2)
Possessive de
223(1)
Possessive Pronouns
223(2)
Possessive à
225(1)
Comparison of Possessives
225(2)
Exercices de contrôle
227(2)
CHAPTER 20 Writing in French 229(12)
Accents
229(1)
Contractions
230(1)
Capitalization
231(1)
Punctuation
232(2)
Spelling Equivalents
234(2)
Acronyms and Abbreviations
236(2)
Apocopes
238(3)
APPENDIX A Verb Tables 241(32)
APPENDIX B Answer Key 273(14)
APPENDIX C Further Reading 287(1)
APPENDIX D Bibliography 288(1)
INDEX 289

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