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Heminway, Annie. French DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition. US: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

French DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition

Authors: Annie Heminway

Published:  May 2011

eISBN: 9780071755771 0071755772 | ISBN: 9780071755788
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  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Basics of French Understanding
  • Chapter 1 French Pronunciation
  • The French You Already Know: Borrowed Words and Cognates
  • The French Alphabet
  • Pronouncing Vowels
  • Pronouncing Consonants
  • Syllabification
  • The Francophone World
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 2 Naming Things
  • Definite Articles
  • French Nouns and Gender
  • Asking Basic Questions
  • The Gender of Countries
  • The Plural of Nouns
  • Indefinite Articles
  • The Cardinal Numbers Zero to Fifty
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Days, Months, and Seasons
  • French Names
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 3 Asking Questions
  • Subject Pronouns
  • -er Verb Endings in the Present Tense
  • Spelling Changes in -er Verbs
  • Asking Questions
  • Answering Questions in the Negative
  • The Negation ni... ni
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 4 To Be or to Have, That Is the Question!
  • The Verb être
  • The Verb avoir
  • The Verb aller
  • Using il y a
  • Expressions of Quantity
  • Demonstrative Adjectives
  • Possessive Adjectives
  • The Numbers Fifty and Above
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 5 Describing Things
  • -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
  • -re Verbs in the Present Tense
  • The Imperative Mood
  • Qualitative Adjectives
  • Making Comparisons
  • The Académie française
  • Quiz
  • Part One Test
  • Part Two: Some Essential Friends
  • Chapter 6 Talking About Time and Location
  • Telling Time
  • Adverbs and Expressions of Time
  • Adverbs and Expressions of Location
  • Using depuis
  • Geographic Names
  • The French Republic and Government
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 7 Expressing Possibilities, Wishes, and Abilities
  • The Verb devoir
  • The Verb vouloir
  • The Verb pouvoir
  • Irregular -oir Verbs in the Present Tense
  • The Partitive Article
  • Synonyms
  • Homonyms
  • Onomatopoeia
  • French Etiquette
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 8 Getting Acquainted
  • The Verb savoir
  • The Verb connaître
  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes
  • Dans versus en
  • Colors
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 9 Talking About the Immediate Future and Past
  • The Immediate Future Tense
  • The Immediate Past Tense
  • The Verb tenir
  • Using the Impersonal Pronominal Verb il s’agit de
  • The Verb faire
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 10 Using Pronominal Verbs
  • The Different Types of Pronominal Verbs
  • Pronominal Verbs in the Imperative Form
  • Pronominal Verbs in the Infinitive
  • Parts of the Body
  • Disjunctive Pronouns
  • Intonation in French
  • The Conjunction donc
  • Quiz
  • Part Two Test
  • Part Three: Talking About the Past
  • Chapter 11 All About Pronouns
  • Direct Object Pronouns
  • Indirect Object Pronouns
  • The Pronoun y
  • The Pronoun en
  • The Order of the Pronouns
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 12 Talking About the Past with the passé composé
  • The passé composé
  • The passé composé with avoir
  • The passé composé with être
  • Using Direct Objects in the passé composé
  • Pronominal Verbs in the passé composé
  • Using Adverbs with the passé composé
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 13 Talking About the Past with the imparfait
  • The imparfait
  • Using the imparfait for Description
  • Using the imparfait for Habitual Action
  • Using the imparfait to Express Interrupted Action
  • Using the imparfait to Make a Suggestion
  • Using the imparfait to Express a Wish or Regret
  • The Immediate Past with the imparfait
  • The imparfait Versus the passé composé
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 14 All About Prepositions
  • Prepositions and French Verbs
  • Verbs Without Prepositions
  • Verbs Followed by the Preposition à
  • Verbs Followed by the Preposition de
  • Verbs That Use Different Prepositions
  • Common Prepositions
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 15 More Past Tenses and Indicating Possession
  • The plus-que-parfait
  • The passé simple
  • Possessive Pronouns
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Quiz
  • Part Three Test
  • Part Four: All Is Subjective
  • Chapter 16 Using the Infinitive, Present Participle, Gerund, and Passive Voice
  • The Present Infinitive
  • The Past Infinitive
  • The Present Participle
  • The Gerund
  • The Passive Voice
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 17 Making Suggestions and Hypotheses
  • The Simple Future
  • The Future Perfect
  • The Present Conditional
  • The Past Conditional
  • Could, Should, and Would
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 18 Knowing Who Is Who with Relative Pronouns
  • The Relative Pronouns
  • The Relative Pronoun qui
  • The Relative Pronoun que
  • Relative Pronouns Following Prepositions
  • The Relative Pronoun dont
  • Using the Antecedent ce
  • Indirect Speech
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 19 The Subjunctive Mood
  • The Subjunctive
  • The Present Subjunctive
  • Uses of the Subjunctive
  • The Past Subjunctive
  • Quiz
  • Part Four Test
  • Final Exam
  • English-French Glossary
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  • W
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  • French-English Glossary
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  • Answer Key
  • Index