Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Annie Heminway

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 657
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Seven books from the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series—all in one volume! The best value for learning French at the level that matches your needs!

With more than 2 million copies sold, the Practice Makes Perfect series has always offered what you need to master the French language: Clear explanations, practical examples, and the practice required for growing mastery. In Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Third Edition, you get even more at a spectacular value, with seven books from the bestselling series all in one volume.

Structured to help you learn French at your own level, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Third Edition covers grammar, sentence structures and conversation, and is enhanced with a comprehensive index that allows you quick reference to all grammar explanations in the book. This premium third edition is supported by the McGraw Hill Language Lab app, with vocabulary flash cards, audio conversations and answers to numerous exercises, and new recordings of example sentences throughout the book to help you improve your pronunciation and listening comprehension. Reinforced by hundreds of hands-on practice exercises, this one-stop resource gives you the confidence you need to break through the barrier to competency and fluency in French.

Features

• One mega volume contains seven popular titles: Complete French Grammar; French Nouns and their Genders Up Close; French Vocabulary; French Sentence Builder; French Pronouns and Prepositions; French Verb Tenses, and French Problem Solver
• Integrated approach lets you study at your own level and pace
• Supported by the McGraw Hill Language Lab app: This includes flashcards for all vocabulary lists throughout the book, as well as streaming audio recordings for many exercise answer keys and conversations
• NEW: Audio recordings of example sentences throughout the book reinforce grammar concepts and improve pronunciation and oral comprehension
• Suitable for both classroom use and individual study; ideal as a review workbook, companion to a basic text, and reference source

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1 Articles
2 Basic gender endings: Masculin and féminin
3 More French nouns and their gender
4 Numbers
5 Vocabulary: Thoughts, feelings, communicating, home, travel, science, leisure, and technology
6 Building sentences
7 Asking questions
8 Exclamations and commands
9 Independent clauses and subordinate clauses
10 The present tense of -er verbs
11 The present of -ir and -re verbs
12 Être, avoir, and other irregular verbs
13 The immediate future, the immediate past, and the causative form
14 Pronominal verbs
15 The passé composé
16 The imparfait and the plus-que-parfait
17 The simple future and the past future
18 The present conditional and the past conditional
19 Could, should, would?
20 The present subjunctive and the past subjunctive
21 Prepositions
22 The infinitive mood
23 The imperative mood
24 The present participle and gerund
25 The simple past, the passive voice, and indirect speech
26 Pronouns
27 Relative pronouns
28 Adjectives
29 Adverbs
30 Written French: Making transitions and written correspondence
31 Verb transfers and confusing verbs
32 Whatever, whenever, wherever: French oddities and fun with prepositions
33 French in conversation: Meeting people
34 French in conversation: Making conversation and making plans
35 French in conversation: Discussing current events
36 French in conversation: Asking for help
37 A taste of French literature
Appendix A French pronunciation
Appendix B Grammatical terminology for verbs
Appendix C French verb tables
Appendix D French-English / English-French glossary
Answer key
Translations