Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builder, Premium Third Edition

by Eliane Kurbegov

Overview

The go-to guide to helping you make the leap from French language basics to composing well-structured sentences—now with new streaming audio recordings via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app.

Once you’ve learned the rudiments of French grammar and a core vocabulary, the next challenge is to put together well-structured sentences. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builder, you’ll find everything you need to help you break out of a compartmentalized understanding of the language and build your confidence in writing and speaking French.

Progressing gradually from putting words together into clauses through writing your own sentences and eventually entire paragraphs, Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builder presents clear explanations on how to apply grammar, numerous examples that demonstrate correct word order, and helpful exercises to practice. With new audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, you’ll gain the skills you need to be able to speak, understand, and write French with confidence.

Features

• Presents grammar elements in the context of sentence building, supported by numerous examples
• Includes numerous exercises in a variety of formats to build writing skills
• A review chapter tests your comprehension of everything covered in the book
• An answer key provides correct responses to closed exercises and example answers for creative questions
• NEW: Audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, available via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264286027
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	505,277
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eliane Kurbegov has taught French at secondary and higher education levels for the past thirty years and is the author of numerous French language learning titles.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Declarative sentences and word order 1

2 Interrogative sentences and word order 9

3 Precise questions 18

4 Exclamatory sentences 29

5 Imperative clauses 35

6 Independent clauses 39

7 Dependent clauses and the indicative mood 51

8 Dependent clauses and the subjunctive mood 64

9 Relative clauses 76

10 Infinitive and past infinitive clauses 86

11 Using nouns 102

12 Using personal pronouns 113

13 Special uses of pronouns 132

14 Using adverbs and adverbial phrases 139

15 Using prepositions and prepositional phrases 156

16 Using present and past participles 169

17 Making transitions 179

18 Letter writing and messaging 191

19 Using colloquial expressions and structures 199

20 Writing 206

21 Review and extension 213

Answer key 243