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Complete French grammar review, Renée White

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Complete French grammar review

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Renée White

Barron's foreign language guides

From the Publisher: A brand-new title in Barron's Foreign Language Guides and the latest in the foreign language Grammar Review series, this book covers virtually every rule of French grammar and usage. Following a summary of rules for correct pronunciation and spelling, the author goes on to review verb tenses, as well as reflexive verbs, the subjunctive, the imperative, and infinitive verb forms. Rules governing nouns, pronouns modifiers, prepositions, interrogatives, and negative forms are also examined in detail. The book's final chapters cover miscellaneous topics such as numbers, time and dates, idioms, synonyms, antonyms, and cognates. Interesting French cultural notes can be found throughout the text. This book makes a fine reference guide and review manual for intermediate students of French on a high school or college level. Includes practice questions with answers

Introduction -- Part 1: Reviewing And Practicing The Basics -- 1: French pronunciation and spelling -- Part 2: Reviewing And Practicing The Verbs -- 2: Present tense of regular verbs -- Culture capsule 1 -- 3: Present tense of irregular verbs -- Simple negative -- Simple interrogative -- Negative interrogative -- Imperative of irregular verbs -- Culture capsule 2 -- 4: Imperfect -- Verbs with spelling changes -- When to use the imperfect -- Depuis plus the imperfect -- Culture capsule 3 -- 5: Compound past tense -- Use of Aboir and Etre -- Past participles of irregular verbs -- Agreement of the past participle -- Interrogative and negative forms -- Use of adverbs -- Laisser, Partir, Quitter -- Compound past or imperfect? -- Culture capsule 4 -- 6: Pluperfect -- Juxtaposed sentences -- Plus-que-parfait and conjunctions of time -- Passe compose, imparfait and plus que parfait: order -- Culture 5 -- 7: Pronominal verbs -- Relexive or reciprocal pronouns -- Placement of pronouns -- Agreement of the past participle -- Pronominal verbs after Aller/Vouloir/Pouvoir -- Negative form -- Interrogative form -- Culture capsule 6 -- 8: Infinitive -- Present infinitve -- Causative constructionof Faire -- Past infinitve -- Infinitive preceded by the prepositions A and De -- Culture capsule 7 -- 9: Passe simple and the passive voice -- Passe simple -- Passive voice -- 10: Future and the conditional -- Simple future -- Quand, Lorsque, Desque, Aussitot que, Une fois que -- Future perfect -- Present conditional -- Past conditional -- Devoir -- Culture capsule 8 -- 11: Subjunctive -- Present subjunctive -- Irregular verbs with a regular subjunctive -- Irregular verbs with an irregular subjunctive -- Past subjunctive -- 12: Present participle, the gerund, and the indirect discourse -- Present participle -- Past form of the present participle -- Gerund -- Indirect discourse -- Indirect discourse and other tenses -- Culture capsule 9 -- Part 3: Reviewing And Practicing The Other Parts Of Speech -- 13: Articles -- Definite and indefinite articles -- General uses of the articles -- Partitive article -- Special uses of the definite article -- Culture capsule 10 -- 14: Nouns -- Gender of nouns -- Plural of nouns -- Cest ouI1 est -- 15: Adjectives and adverbs -- Fender of adjectives -- Plural of adjectives -- Placement of adjectives in the sentence -- Adverbs -- Placement of adverbs -- Tout as adjective, adverb, or pronoun -- Culture capsule 11 -- 16: Personal pronouns -- Direct object pronouns -- Indirect object pronouns -- Y and EN -- Interrogative and negative forms -- Disjunctive pronouns -- Placement of pronouns in the imperative -- Culture 12 -- 17: Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns -- Possessive adjectives -- Possessive pronouns -- Demonstrative adjectives -- Demonstrative pronouns -- How to write a letter in french -- 18: Relative pronouns -- Who/which and who/which -- Dont -- Preposition plus Qui (for people only) -- Preposition plus Lequel, Laqueulle, Lesquels, Lesquelles -- Prepositions A and De plus Lequel, Laquelle, Lesquels, and Lesquelles (for things and people) -- Ou -- Ce plus the relative pronoun -- 19: Prepositions -- Preposition categories -- Conjunctions -- Culture Capsule 13 -- 20: Comparative and superlative -- Comparative -- Superlative -- Plus, Davantage, Comme -- Culture capsule 14 -- 21: Negative -- Simpel negative -- Negative expressions -- Multiple negatives -- Quelqu/un de, Quelque chose de, Personne de, Rien de -- Culture capsule 15 -- 22: Interrogatives -- Simpel interrogative -- Interrogative adjective -- Interrogative pronoun -- Qui and Quoi -- Interrogative pronouns of choice -- Interrogative adverbs -- Culture capsule 16 -- 23: Numbers, dates, time -- Numbers -- Dates -- Time -- Culture capsule 17 -- Part 4: Appendices -- Frequently used idiomatic expressions and vocabulary -- Proverbs -- Synonyms, antonyms, cognates -- Verb charts -- Answers to the exercises -- Index