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Crocker, Mary Coffman. Schaum's Outline of French Grammar, 5ed. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Schaum's Outline of French Grammar, 5ed

Authors: Mary Coffman Crocker

Published:  September 2008

eISBN: 9780071546065 0071546065 | ISBN: 9780071546058
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  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 Nouns and Articles
  • Gender and the Definite Article
  • Singular Forms
  • Gender Identification by Word Endings
  • Nouns Indicating Occupations, Nationalities, Relationships and Domestic Animals
  • Words with Different Meanings in Masculine and Feminine Forms
  • Plural Forms of Nouns
  • Regular Plurals
  • Nouns Ending in -s, -x or -z
  • Nouns Ending in -au, -eau, -eu or -œu
  • Nouns Ending in -ou
  • Nouns Ending in -al
  • Nouns Ending in-ail
  • Irregular Plurals
  • Singular or Plural
  • Compound Nouns
  • Special Uses of the Definite Article
  • With General or Abstract Nouns
  • With Titles
  • With Languages and Academic Subjects
  • With Days of the Week, Seasons Dates and Time Expressions
  • With Names of Continents, Countries, Provinces, Regions, Islands, Mountains and Rivers
  • With Weights and Measures
  • With Parts of the Body or Clothing
  • Omission of the Definite Article
  • Contractions of the Definite Article
  • The Indefinite Article
  • Omission of the Indefinite Article
  • After the Verb être
  • Other Omissions of the Indefinite Article
  • The Partitive Article
  • The Partitive Article Versus the Definite and Indefinite Articles
  • Exceptions to the Rule for Using the Partitive Article
  • When the Sentence is Negative
  • When an Adjective Precedes a Noun in the Plural
  • After Expressions of Quantity and Expressions with de
  • Chapter 2 Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Formation of the Feminine of Adjectives
  • Regular Forms
  • Adjectives Ending in a Vowel, Pronounced Consonant or Mute-e
  • Adjectives Ending in -el, -eil, -il, -en, -on, -et and -s
  • Adjectives Ending in -er
  • Adjectives Ending in -x
  • Adjectives Ending in -eur
  • Adjectives Ending in -f
  • Adjectives Ending in -c
  • Irregular Adjectives
  • The Adjectives beau, nouveau, vieux
  • Plural of Adjectives
  • Regular Forms
  • Adjectives Ending in -s or -x
  • Adjectives Ending in -eu or -eau
  • Adjectives Ending in -al
  • Agreement Problems of Certain Adjectives
  • Adjectives of Color
  • Compound Adjectives
  • Position of Adjectives
  • Adjectives That Change Meaning According to Position
  • Formation of Adverbs
  • Regular Forms
  • Adverbs Formed from Adjectives Ending in a Vowel
  • Adverbs Ending in -ément
  • Adverbs Ending in -amment and -emment
  • Irregular Adverbs
  • Position of Adverbs
  • Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Regular Comparisons
  • Comparative Followed by a Noun
  • Superlative of Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Adjectives without Comparative and Superlative Forms
  • Useful Phrases with Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Possessive Adjectives
  • Use of the Definite Article as a Possessive
  • With on, personne, tout le monde
  • With chacun
  • Demonstrative Adjectives
  • Indefinite Adjectives
  • Chapter 3 Prepositions
  • Uses of Certain Prepositions
  • Prepositions to Indicate Location or Direction to or from a Place
  • À, de, dans, en, chez
  • Prepositions with Geographical Names
  • À
  • En
  • Au
  • Dans
  • De
  • Prepositions with Modes of Transportation
  • Prepositions with Expressions of Time
  • À, at
  • Dans, en, in
  • Avant, before and après, after
  • Prepositions Used to Join Two Nouns
  • To Indicate Function or to Join a Noun that Modifies Another Noun
  • To Mean with
  • To Introduce the Material from Which an Object is Made
  • Prepositions of Cause
  • Prepositions After Indefinite Pronouns
  • Prepositions in Adverbial Clauses of Manner
  • Prepositions to Introduce an Infinitive Depending on a Noun or Adjective
  • To Indicate Function, Result or Tendency
  • After Expressions of Duration, Length of Time and Position of the Body
  • Chapter 4 Numbers, Dates, Time
  • Numbers
  • Cardinal Numbers
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Collective Numbers
  • Fractions
  • Arithmetical Operations
  • Dimensions
  • Dates
  • Time
  • Chapter 5 Verbs
  • Moods and Tenses
  • Subject Personal Pronouns
  • The Present Tense
  • First Conjugation Verbs
  • Verbs Beginning with a Vowel
  • Verbs with Spelling Changes
  • Second Conjugation Verbs
  • Third Conjugation Verbs
  • Irregular Verbs
  • Verbs with Infinitives Ending in -ire
  • Special Uses of the Present Tense
  • Reflexive / Pronominal Verbs
  • S’asseoir
  • Reflexive Verbs with Parts of the Body
  • Reflexive versus Non-reflexive Verbs
  • Reflexive Verbs in the Infinitive
  • Imperatives
  • Affirmative Imperatives
  • The Affirmative Imperative of Reflexive Verbs
  • The Negative Imperative
  • The Negative Imperative of Reflexive Verbs
  • The Present Participle
  • Formation
  • Use
  • The Imperfect Tense
  • Regular Forms
  • Verbs with Spelling Changes
  • Être
  • Uses of the Imperfect Tense
  • Continuing or Habitual Action
  • With Verbs Denoting Mental Activity or Conditions
  • Descriptions in the Past
  • Si and the Imperfect Tense
  • Depuis, il y avait...que, voilá...que, ça faisait...que and the Imperfect Tense
  • Venir de in the Imperfect Tense
  • The Conversational Past Tense (Passé Composé) of Verbs Conjugated with Avoir
  • The Passé Composé of -er Verbs
  • The Passé Composé of -ir Verbs
  • The Passé Composé of -re Verbs
  • Irregular Past Participles
  • Agreement of the Past Participle with Verbs Conjugated with avoir
  • The Passé Composé of Verbs Conjugated with Être
  • Monter, descendre, sortir, entrer, rentrer with être and avoir in the Passé Composé
  • Passer with être and avoir in the Passé Composé
  • The Passé Composé of Reflexive Verbs
  • Agreement of the Past Participle with Reflexive Pronouns
  • Uses of the Passé Composé
  • Present Perfect
  • Past Action
  • Differences between the Passé Composé and the Imperfect Tense
  • The Literary Past Tense (Passé Simple)
  • The Passé Simple of -er Verbs
  • The Passé Simple of -ir and -re Verbs
  • Irregular Verbs Building the Passé Simple upon the Past Participle
  • Irregular Verbs not Building the Passé Simple upon the Past Participle
  • The Future
  • Aller with an Infinitive
  • Regular Forms of the Future Tense
  • Verbs Using the Third Person Singular Form of the Present Tense as the Future Stem
  • Verbs with Irregular Future Stems
  • Special Uses of the Future Tense
  • The Conditional
  • Formation of the Present Conditional
  • Uses of the Conditional
  • Compound Tenses
  • Pluperfect Tense (Plus-que-parfait)
  • Future Perfect Tense (Futur Antérieur)
  • Past Conditional (Passé du Conditionnel)
  • The Past Anterior (Passé Antérieur) and the Passé Surcomposé
  • Si Clauses
  • The Subjunctive Mood
  • Present Subjunctive
  • Regular Forms
  • Spelling Changes in the Present Subjunctive
  • Verbs with Internal Vowel Changes in the Present Subjunctive
  • Verbs with Variable Bases in the Present Subjunctive
  • Verbs with Irregular Bases in the Present Subjunctive
  • Uses of the Subjunctive
  • Avoiding the Subjunctive
  • The Past Subjunctive
  • The Imperfect Subjunctive
  • Use of the Imperfect Subjunctive
  • The Pluperfect Subjunctive
  • Use of the Pluperfect Subjunctive
  • Si Clauses in the Subjunctive
  • Sequence of Tenses in Indirect Discourse
  • Indirect Discourse in Sentences with an Interrogative Word
  • Interrogative Pronouns in Indirect Discourse
  • Inversion of the Subject in Indirect Discourse
  • Uses of the Infinitive
  • After Prepositions
  • As a Noun
  • As an Imperative
  • In an Interrogative Phrase Expressing Deliberation
  • In an Exclamatory Phrase
  • Faire in Causative Construction
  • Laisser and Verbs of Perception plus the Infinitive
  • The Use of the Prepositions à and de before an Infinitive
  • Passive Voice
  • Forms of the Passive Voice
  • True Passive with être
  • The Passive Voice with se
  • Chapter 6 Interrogative Words and Constructions
  • Forming Questions
  • Interrogative Forms by Inversion—Simple Tenses
  • Interrogative Forms by Inversion—Compound Tenses
  • Interrogative Adverbs and Adverbial Expressions
  • Interrogative Pronouns
  • Qu’est-ce que c’est? Qu’est-ce que?
  • Interrogative Adjective Quel
  • Interrogative Pronoun Lequel
  • Chapter 7 Negative Words and Constructions
  • Negation of Simple Tenses
  • Negation of Compound Tenses
  • The Negative Interrogative
  • Si in Answer to a Negative Question
  • Omission of Pas
  • Negation of the Infinitive
  • Negative Words and Phrases
  • Chapter 8 Pronouns
  • Subject Pronouns
  • Direct Object Pronouns
  • Le, la, l’, les
  • Special Use of the Pronoun le
  • Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
  • Me, te, nous, vous
  • Indirect Object Pronouns
  • Lui, leur
  • The Pronoun Y
  • The Pronoun En
  • Double Object Pronouns
  • Position of Object Pronouns
  • With Conjugated Verbs
  • With an Infinitive
  • With Infinitive Constructions: Causative faire (faire faire), laisser and Verbs of Perception
  • With Affirmative Commands
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Disjunctive Pronouns
  • Possessive Pronouns
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Indefinite Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Ce, ceci, cela (ça)
  • Relative Pronouns
  • Qui who, which, that
  • Que whom, which, that
  • Ce qui and ce que
  • Relative Pronouns with Prepositions Other than de: Qui, lequel
  • Où
  • Relative Pronouns with the Preposition de: Dont, duquel
  • Quoi, ce dont
  • Indefinite Pronouns
  • Chapter 9 Special Meanings of Certain Verbs
  • Expressions with Aller
  • Expressions with Avoir
  • Expressions with Être
  • Expressions with Faire
  • Special Uses of Other Verbs
  • Devoir, pouvoir, savoir, vouloir
  • Habiter, demeurer, vivre
  • Jouer, jouer à, jouer de
  • Manquer, manquer à, manquer de
  • Penser à, penser de
  • Partir, sortir, s’en aller, laisser, quitter
  • Passer, se passer, se passer de
  • Plaire
  • Se rappeler, se souvenir de
  • Servir, se servir de
  • Savior versus connaître
  • Venir de
  • Answers to Exercises
  • Verb Charts
  • Index