Practice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses, Premium Third Edition - Trudie Booth

Practice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses, Premium Third Edition

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Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2018 | 3rd edition
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-260-12171-1 (ISBN)
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Master verbs with the most comprehensive workbook for learners of French
Practice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses is the go-to-guide for clear, thorough explanations that pinpoint why a certain tense works in a given situation. This book will also give you plenty of practice in using your new language skills. With numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to master French in no time at all. And this new edition is accompanied by flashcards and recordings, available via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexible to your study.
THE BOOK IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN PARTS:
Part I works with the present tense, including the conjugation of regular and irregular verbs, asking questions, impersonal verbs, and the use of reflexive verbs. Idiomatic uses of avoir, faire, être, aller, vouloir, and prendre are also covered in detail.
Part II focuses on past tenses, from the composition of the passé composé to its contrasting use with the imperfect tense. The formation and uses of the pluperfect and passé simple are also thoroughly reviewed.
Part III covers the future tenses (simple future, le future proche, and future perfect) and the conditional. The formation and uses of present and past subjunctive are explained, as well as the use of subjunctive in the main clause.
Part IV addresses the infinitive and negative infinitive, the imperative and negative imperative, the present participle and the gerund, and the formation and uses of the passive voice.

Trudie Booth is a lecturer in French at the University of Portland.

Introduction
Useful grammatical terminology for verbs
A few remarks about French pronunciation
I THE PRESENT TENSE
1 The present tense of regular verbs
The conjugation of regular -er verbs
The conjugation of -er verbs with spelling changes
The conjugation of regular -ir verbs
The conjugation of regular -re verbs
Asking questions
Verbs and their objects
2 The present tense of irregular verbs
The conjugation of irregular verbs
The uses of the present tense
Special uses of aller and venir
Savoir and connaître
Exercices de révision
Idioms with avoir, faire, être, aller, vouloir, and prendre
Plaire (à)
3 A few impersonal verbs
Weather verbs
The impersonal use of être
The impersonal use of avoir
Other impersonal expressions
4 Reflexive verbs
The present tense of reflexive verbs
Common French reflexive verbs and their use
Exercices de révision
Reflexive and non-reflexive use
The use of the reflexive pronoun to indicate reciprocal action
Reflexive constructions with a passive meaning
II THE PAST TENSES
5 The passé composé
The formation of the passé composé
The passé composé of verbs conjugated with avoir
The passé composé of verbs conjugated with être
Verbs that can be conjugated with être or avoir
The passé composé of reflexive verbs
Exercices de révision
The uses of the passé composé
6 The imperfect tense
The formation of the imperfect tense
The uses of the imperfect tense
The uses of the passé composé and imperfect tense contrasted
7 The pluperfect tense
The formation of the pluperfect tense
The uses of the pluperfect tense
8 The passé simple
The formation of the passé simple
The uses of the passé simple
III THE FUTURE TENSES, THE CONDITIONAL, AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE
9 The future tenses
The formation of the simple future
The uses of the simple future
The close future (le futur proche)
The formation of the future perfect
The uses of the future perfect
10 The conditional
The formation of the present conditional
The uses of the present conditional
The formation of the past conditional
The uses of the past conditional
Tense sequences in conditional sentences
11 The subjunctive
The present subjunctive of regular verbs
The present subjunctive of irregular verbs
The past subjunctive
The uses of the subjunctive
Exercices de révision
The use of the subjunctive in the main clause
IV THE INFINITIVE, THE IMPERATIVE, THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE AND GERUND, AND THE PASSIVE VOICE
12 The infinitive
The formation of the infinitives
The negative infinitive
The uses of the infinitive
Faire + infinitive (causative faire)
Verb + de quoi (something, enough) + infinitive
Exercices de révision
13 The imperative
Regular forms of the imperative
The negative imperative
Irregular forms of the imperative
The position of object pronouns with the imperative
The imperative of reflexive verbs
14 The present participle and the gerund
The formation of the present participle
The uses of the present participle
The gerund and its uses
15 The passive voice
The formation of the passive voice
The uses of the passive voice
Review exercises
Appendix A: Numbers, dates, time
Appendix B: Verb tables
French-English glossary
English-French glossary
Answer key

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort OH
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 862 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-260-12171-2 / 1260121712
ISBN-13 978-1-260-12171-1 / 9781260121711
Zustand Neuware
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