French Workbook for Dummies by Lawless, Laura K. [Paperback]

Description: Introduction 1 Part 1: The Building Blocks of French 5 Chapter 1: Getting to Know You 7 Chapter 2: Understanding Parts of Speech and Bilingual Dictionaries 23 Chapter 3: Figuring Out Nouns and Articles 41 Chapter 4: Showing Up and Owning Up: Demonstratives and Possessives 59 Chapter 5: The 4-1-1 on Numbers, Dates, and Time 75 Part 2: The Here and Now: Writing in the Present 95 Chapter 6: Right Here, Right Now: The Present Tense 97 Chapter 7: Sorting Out Pronominal Verbs: Idioms, Oneself, and Each Other 123 Chapter 8: Asking and Answering Questions 139 Chapter 9: Just Say No: The Negative 157 Chapter 10: "To Be" or "Being" Is the Question: Infinitives and Present Participles 171 Part 3: Writing with Panache: Dressing Up Your Sentences 187 Chapter 11: Describing and Comparing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 189 Chapter 12: An Ode to Prepositions 217 Chapter 13: Getting a Hold on Pronouns 233 Part 4: Just Do It, and Now You've Done It: Commands and Past Tenses 249 Chapter 14: I Command You: The Imperative 251 Chapter 15: It's All in the Past: Passé Composé 265 Chapter 16: When the Past Isn't Perfect: The Imparfait Tense 281 Part 5: The Part of Tens 299 Chapter 17: Ten (or so) Essential French Phrases 301 Chapter 18: Ten Celebratory French Expressions 307 Part 6: Appendixes 311 Appendix A: Verb Charts 313 Appendix B: Verbs with Prepositions 323 Appendix C: English-French Dictionary 327 Appendix D: French-English Dictionary 335 Index 343

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