Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Second Edition

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1260121046 · 9781260121049
The most comprehensive way to learn French – with seven bestselling books in one!Drawn from seven workbooks from the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, this powerhouse volume features all the knowledge and practice you need to master French… Read More
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Preface
1 Articles
2 Basic gender endings: Masculin and féminin
3 More French nouns and their gender
4 Numbers
5 Vocabulary: Thoughts, feelings, communicating, home, travel, science, leisure, and technology
6 Building sentences
7 Asking questions
8 Exclamations and commands
9 Independent clauses and subordinate clauses
10 The present tense of -er verbs
11 The present of -ir and -re verbs
12 Être, avoir, and other irregular verbs
13 The immediate future, the immediate past, and the causative form
14 Pronominal verbs
15 The passé composé
16 The imparfait and the plus-que-parfait
17 The simple future and the past future
18 The present conditional and the past conditional
19 Could, should, would?
20 The present subjunctive and the past subjunctive
21 Prepositions
22 The infinitive mood
23 The imperative mood
24 The present participle and gerund
25 The simple past, the passive voice, and indirect speech
26 Pronouns
27 Relative pronouns
28 Adjectives
29 Adverbs
30 Written French: Making transitions and written correspondence
31 Verb transfers and confusing verbs
32 Whatever, whenever, wherever: French oddities and fun with prepositions
33 French in conversation: Meeting people
34 French in conversation: Making conversation and making plans
35 French in conversation: Discussing current events
36 French in conversation: Asking for help
37 A taste of French literature
Appendix A French pronunciation
Appendix B Grammatical terminology for verbs
Appendix C French verb tables
Appendix D French-English / English-French glossary
Answer key
Translations
The most comprehensive way to learn French – with seven bestselling books in one!
Drawn from seven workbooks from the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, this powerhouse volume features all the knowledge and practice you need to master French. With Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, you will build your French vocabulary, straighten out your sentences, overcome your fear of verb tenses, master the intricacies of grammar, and much more. This value-packed workbook covers all the facets of French and offers thorough explanations that are reinforced by hundreds of hands-on practice exercises.
You will, or course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using all your new French skills. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning French class, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One will help you master French in no time at all.
Annie Heminway, editor, teaches grammar, creative writing, translation, African cinema, and classic and Francophone literature at the SCPS of New York University. She is also a translator and an editor for Francophone publishers. In 2006 she was awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government in recognition of her work in promoting the study of French.
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Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One helps you:
? Learn French vocabulary? Get a solid grasp on grammar? Determine when to use different verb tenses? Master spelling and punctuate rules? Converse confidently in your new languageBuild correct sentence structures