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Heminway, Annie. Practice Makes Perfect French Problem Solver. McGraw-Hill, 2013.

Practice Makes Perfect French Problem Solver

Authors: Annie Heminway

Published:  May 2013

eISBN: 9780071791199 0071791191 | ISBN: 9780071791175
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Nouns: gender and pluralization
  • Gender and its intricacies
  • Basic masculine noun endings
  • Basic feminine noun endings
  • Gender and professions
  • Gender and animals
  • What about geography?
  • Homographic homonyms
  • Homophonous homonyms
  • The pluralization of nouns
  • The pluralization of compound nouns
  • 2 Accents, h aspiré, and capitalization
  • Accent on accents
  • É
  • È
  • Circumflex
  • Diaeresis
  • La cédille
  • The h aspiré
  • Capitalization
  • 3 Adjectives and adverbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • The comparisons of adjectives and adverbs
  • 4 Practical pronouns
  • Following a Gallic warrior: on and y
  • The magic potion: en
  • Direct object pronouns
  • The case interlude
  • Emphatic interlude
  • Back to direct object pronouns
  • Indirect object pronouns
  • What comes first? The order of object pronouns in a phrase
  • Relative pronouns
  • The qui/que conundrum
  • What’s the deal with dont?
  • You say ce qui, I say ce que, they say ce dont...
  • Where are you going, when are you going?
  • 5 The past tenses
  • The immediate past tense
  • The passé composé
  • The passé composé with the verb avoir
  • The irregular past participles
  • The passé composé with être
  • Pronominal verbs in the perfect tense
  • The imparfait
  • Imparfait versus passé composé
  • The plus-que-parfait
  • The simple past tense
  • The future perfect tense
  • 6 Future tense, conditional mood, and subjunctive mood: Could, should, would: Whatever, whoever, wherever, whenever
  • The immediate future tense
  • The future tense
  • The present conditional
  • The conditional past
  • The subjunctive mood
  • Could, should, would
  • Whatever, whoever, wherever, whenever
  • 7 Verb transfers
  • Faux amis
  • To have
  • To be
  • To get
  • To take
  • To put
  • To hold
  • To go
  • To keep
  • Faire
  • A final thought
  • 8 Common confusing verbs
  • Prêter/emprunter
  • Poser/demander/interroger/mettre ou remettre en question
  • Commander/ordonner
  • Apporter/emporter/rapporter/amener/emmener
  • Aménager/emménager/déménager
  • Rencontrer/rejoindre/retrouver/se joindre à
  • Arrêter/s’arrêter
  • Pousser/faire pousser
  • Visiter/rendre visite/faire visiter
  • Vouloir/en vouloir à
  • Envier/avoir envie de/avoir une envie de
  • Attendre/s’attendre à
  • Manquer/manquer de/manquer à/il manque
  • Savoir/connaître
  • 9 Using the infinitive: The causative form: The present participle: The gerund
  • Using the infinitive
  • The causative form
  • The present participle
  • Using the present participle
  • The gerund
  • 10 Verbs and prepositions
  • Verbs not followed by a preposition
  • Verbs followed by the preposition à
  • Verbs followed by the preposition de
  • Having fun with prepositions
  • A final thought
  • Translations
  • Answer key