Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate French Grammar: With 145 Exercises

✍ Scribed by Kurbegov, Eliane

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Practice makes perfect (McGraw-Hill Companies)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Master French grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice!Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate French Grammarhelps you take your grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This workbook leads you through French grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language, keeping you focused on achieving your goal of total fluency.

Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate French Grammaris packed with:

Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point Hundreds of exercises in formats suited to your learning style Practical and high-frequency French vocabularyMaster these tricky subjects:
Prepositions and prepositional phrases * Idiomatic uses of irregular verbs * Negative and interrogative structures * Imparfait and passe compose * The subjunctive mood * Relative pronouns

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 8
Uses of the present tense......Page 10
The present tense of regular verbs......Page 11
The present tense of stem-changing -er verbs......Page 14
Review of articles and genders......Page 19
Using the appropriate article......Page 20
Omitting articles......Page 22
The definite article with parts of the body......Page 25
Idiomatic uses of aller......Page 27
Idiomatic uses of avoir......Page 29
Idiomatic uses of être......Page 31
Idiomatic uses of faire......Page 34
Use and agreement of adjectives......Page 38
Descriptive adjectives......Page 40
Verbs ending in -oir......Page 49
Verbs ending in -re......Page 52
Verbs ending in -ir......Page 56
Prepositions and prepositional phrases introducing nouns or pronouns......Page 61
Prepositions and prepositional phrases followed by verbal structures......Page 66
Imperative structures......Page 74
Use of infinitive forms of verbs......Page 76
The present participle......Page 85
Reflexive verbs in the present tense......Page 88
Transitive verbs......Page 89
Expressing reciprocity with reflexive verbs......Page 90
Reflexive verbs in the imperative mood......Page 92
Use of the definite article with parts of the body......Page 93
The near future tense of verbs......Page 95
The simple future tense of verbs......Page 97
The future tense after quand, lorsque, dès que, aussitôt que......Page 100
Negative expressions in simple tenses......Page 102
Negative expressions with infinitives......Page 104
Interrogative expressions in simple tenses......Page 105
Interrogative structures in compound tenses......Page 111
Formation of imparfait tense......Page 113
Uses of the imparfait......Page 116
Formation of passé composé tense......Page 119
Uses of the passé composé......Page 124
Using the imparfait and/or passé composé in a sentence......Page 126
Using the imparfait and passé composé in extended writing......Page 130
The functions of adverbs......Page 132
Formation of adverbs derived from adjectives......Page 137
Placement of adverbs......Page 139
Adverbial phrases......Page 141
Conditional sentences with the imparfait and present conditional......Page 144
Conditional sentences with the pluperfect and past conditional......Page 149
14 Object pronouns......Page 153
Position of object pronouns......Page 154
Personal object pronouns me, te, nous, vous, and se......Page 155
Direct object pronouns le, la, l’, and les......Page 158
Object pronouns y and en......Page 160
Past infinitive structure of avoir verbs......Page 162
Past infinitive structure of être verbs......Page 163
Past infinitive structure of reflexive verbs......Page 164
Agreement of past participles in compound tenses......Page 167
Agreement of past participles for verbs conjugated with either avoir or être......Page 168
Demonstrative pronouns......Page 173
Interrogative pronouns lequel, laquelle, lesquels, and lesquelles......Page 175
Possessive pronouns......Page 177
Formation of present subjunctive......Page 179
Past subjunctive......Page 191
Function of relative pronouns......Page 194
Answer key......Page 200