Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar, Second Edition

by Véronique Mazet

Overview

Gain control over difficult areas of French grammar with this accessible guide

Mastering grammar in a new language can be challenging. Practice Makes Perfect Advanced French Grammar helps you take your grammar skills to the next level. Written for advanced beginner and intermediate language learners, the book focuses on the sophisticated grammar topics that are essential to constructing longer, more complex sentences. Easy-to-absorb explanatory materials and examples are featured throughout the text. Comprehensive review exercises are included to help reinforce the topics covered and gauge your progress.

You’ll develop a better understanding of the nuances of the language and quickly zero in on what holds you back from fluency. With this book to guide you, you’ll learn how to create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate in French more effectively.

Practice Makes Perfect Advanced French Grammar features:

• Thorough explanations of topics that often prove difficult for English speakers learning French, including compound tenses, the subjunctive, and prepositions
• New: Chapter review test to assess your understanding of the material
• Practical exercises that give you the opportunity to test what you've learned
• Targeted focus to help you improve your language skills in less time
• A handy appendix of tables resolves troublesome grammar issues

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260011265
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	08/25/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

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