Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar, Second Edition

by Veronique Mazet

Overview

Master French grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice!

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar helps you take your French skills to the next level by targeting those key grammar points that may give you trouble. This reference/workbook guides you through each grammatical issue using concise, easy-to-understand language, helping you understand the nuances of the language and keeping you focused on achieving your goal of fluency.

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar puts you on the path to French-language mastery with:

● Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point
● Dozens of exercises, increased in this new edition, that are suited to your learning style
● A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks

Master these tricky subjects:

● The use of “empty prepositions” in French ● The passé compose with être ● Translating –ing into French ● Reported speech after que ● Phony triggers of the subjunctive ● When and if sentences ● The use of definite articles ● The position of object pronouns ● and much more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260011258
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	08/18/2017
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Véronique Mazet, PhD, is an adjunct professor of French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, and is the author of Correct Your French Blunders.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Understanding the verb
2 Compound tenses and agreement of the past participle
3 Use of the past tenses
4 Translating the -ing form into French
5 Relative tenses introduced by que
6 The subjunctive
7 Relative tenses not introduced by que
8 Articles
9 Other determiners
10 Relative pronouns
11 Neutral relative pronouns: translating a different kind of what
12 Determining a noun with prepositions
13 Object pronouns
14 Position of object pronouns
15 Expressing this is and that is: ce, ça, and il
16 Questions
17 Translating for, since, and a few other expressions of time
18 Negative sentences
Answer key