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Stillman, David and Gordon, Ronni. The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice, 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2012.

The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice, 2nd Edition

Authors: David Stillman and Ronni Gordon

Published:  September 2012

eISBN: 9780071797245 0071797246 | ISBN: 9780071797238
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Present Tense of Regular Verbs
  • Building Sentences
  • Subject + verb, subject + verb + direct object (transitive and intransitive verbs)
  • Disjunctive pronoun + subject + verb, disjunctive pronoun + subject + verb + direct object
  • 2 Irregular Verbs (Part I)
  • Building Sentences
  • Negative sentences
  • 3 Irregular Verbs (Part II)
  • Building Sentences
  • Verb + infinitive construction
  • Questions: yes/no questions
  • 4 The Imperative
  • Building Sentences
  • Sentences with indirect objects
  • Sentences with direct object pronouns
  • Sentences with indirect object pronouns
  • Object pronouns with the imperative
  • 5 The Passé Composé
  • Building Sentences
  • Questions: information questions, question words
  • Placement of adverbs in the passé composé
  • The passive voice
  • 6 The Imperfect; The Imperfect vs. the Passé Composé
  • Building Sentences
  • Sentences with the pronouns y and en
  • 7 Reflexive Verbs
  • Building Sentences
  • Sentences with double object pronouns
  • 8 The Future and the Conditional
  • Building Sentences
  • Conditional sentences: possible conditions, contrary-to-present-fact conditions
  • Cleft sentences: highlighting an element of a sentence
  • 9 Compound Tenses: The Pluperfect; The Future Perfect; The Conditional Perfect
  • Building Sentences
  • Conditional sentences: contrary-to-past-fact conditions
  • Cleft sentences: highlighting the direct object of the sentence
  • 10 The Subjunctive (Part I): The Present Subjunctive
  • Building Sentences
  • Cleft sentences: highlighting the indirect object and other elements of the sentence
  • 11 The Subjunctive (Part II): The Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses; The Past Subjunctive; The Subjunctive in Adverb Clauses
  • Building Sentences
  • Compound and complex sentences
  • 12 The Present Participle and the Infinitive
  • Building Sentences
  • Preposition + infinitive phrases as verbal complements
  • Verbs of perception and laisser + infinitive
  • The causative (faire + infinitive)
  • Appendix: Literary Tenses: The Passé Simple; The Imperfect Subjunctive; The Pluperfect Subjunctive
  • Oral Exercises
  • Answer Key
  • Index