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Heminway, Annie. Practice Makes Perfect Complete French Grammar. McGraw-Hill, 2012.

Practice Makes Perfect Complete French Grammar

Authors: Annie Heminway

Published:  March 2012

eISBN: 9780071787826 0071787828 | ISBN: 9780071787819
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  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The present tense of regular -er verbs
  • Regular -er verbs in the present
  • -er verbs with spelling and stem changes
  • When is the present tense used in French?
  • 2 The present tense of -ir and -re verbs
  • -ir verbs in the present
  • -re verbs in the present
  • The interrogative form
  • The negative form
  • 3 To be and to have
  • The verb être (to be)
  • The verb avoir (to have)
  • The -oir verbs
  • 4 More irregular verbs
  • The verb aller (to go)
  • The immediate future tense
  • The verb venir (to come)
  • The immediate past
  • The verb faire (to do, to make)
  • The causative form
  • 5 Devoir and its many facets
  • The verb devoir (to have to, must)
  • Il y a (there is, there are)
  • Il s’agit de (it is a matter of, it’s about)
  • Verbs ending in -eindre and -aindre
  • 6 Pronominal verbs
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Reciprocal verbs
  • Passive pronominals
  • Subjective pronominals
  • Pronominals in the imperative and the infinitive
  • 7 The passé composé
  • The past participle of regular verbs
  • The passé composé with avoir
  • Irregular past participles
  • The passé composé with être
  • Pronominal verbs in the passé composé
  • Verbs conjugated with avoir and être
  • 8 The imparfait
  • The imparfait
  • The imparfait versus the passé composé
  • The imparfait with special constructions
  • 9 The futur simple and the futur antérieur
  • The futur simple
  • The futur antérieur
  • Conjunctions used with the indicative mood
  • 10 The plus-que-parfait
  • Formation of the plus-que-parfait
  • Use of the plus-que-parfait
  • 11 The present conditional and the past conditional
  • The present conditional
  • The past conditional
  • 12 Could, should, would?
  • Could
  • Should
  • Would
  • 13 The present subjunctive and the past subjunctive
  • The present subjunctive
  • Uses of the subjunctive
  • The past subjunctive
  • 14 The infinitive mood
  • The infinitif présent
  • The infinitif passé
  • Verbs with their prepositions
  • 15 The present participle and the gerund
  • The present participle
  • The gerund
  • 16 The passé simple
  • Formation of the passé simple
  • The passé simple of irregular verbs
  • 17 The passive voice
  • Formation of the passive voice
  • Uses of the passive voice
  • Avoiding the passive voice in French
  • 18 Indirect speech
  • Direct speech versus indirect speech
  • Balancing tenses: la concordance des temps
  • 19 The imperative mood
  • Formation of the imperative
  • The imperative of pronominal verbs
  • 20 Articles and nouns
  • The definite article with nouns
  • The indefinite and partitive articles with nouns
  • The gender of nouns
  • The plural of nouns
  • The gender of countries
  • Geographical names with prepositions
  • 21 All the pronouns
  • Subject pronouns
  • Direct object pronouns
  • Indirect object pronouns
  • The order of object pronouns
  • Disjunctive pronouns
  • 22 Adjectives and comparisons
  • Agreement of adjectives
  • The placement of adjectives
  • Adjectives of color
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • 23 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  • Demonstrative adjectives
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Possessive pronouns
  • Demonstrative pronouns
  • 24 Relative pronouns
  • Qui
  • Que
  • Lequel
  • Où
  • Dont
  • Ce que, ce qui, ce dont, ce à quoi
  • 25 Adverbs and expressions of time, frequency, and location
  • Adverbs and expressions of time
  • Interrogative forms; question words
  • Adverbs and expressions of location
  • 26 Numbers
  • The numbers 0 to 50
  • Ordinal numbers
  • The numbers 50 to 99
  • The numbers 100 to 999
  • The numbers 1,000 and greater
  • 27 Pot pourri
  • Verbs that use different prepositions
  • Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever
  • Avoir beau and quitte à
  • Subordinate clauses
  • 28 Review exercises
  • Verb tables
  • Regular verbs
  • Verbs with spelling changes
  • Verbs with stem changes
  • Irregular verbs
  • French-English glossary
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  • English-French glossary
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  • Answer key