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Contents

1 The present tense of regular -er verbs

Regular -er verbs in the present -er verbs with spelling and stem changes

When is the present tense used in French?


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2 The present tense of -ir and -re verbs 13

-ir verbs in the present -re verbs in the present The interrogative form The negative form


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3 To be and to have The verb tre (to be) The verb avoir (to have) The -oir verbs


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4 More irregular verbs

The verb aller (to go) The immediate future tense The verb venir (to come) The immediate past The verb faire (to do, to make) The causative form


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5 Devoir and its many facets The verb devoir (to have to, must) Il y a (there is, there are)

Ils

agit de (it is amatter

of, it

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Verbs ending in -eindre and -aindre


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6 Pronominal verbs

Reflexive verbs Reciprocal verbs Passive pronominals Subjective pronominals Pronominals in the imperative and the infinitive

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7 The pass compos

The past participle of regular verbs The pass compos with avoir Irregular past participles The pass compos with tre Pronominal verbs in the pass compos Verbs conjugated with avoirand tre

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8 The imparfait

The imparfait The imparfait versus the pass compos The imparfait with special constructions


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9 The futur simple and the futur antrieurThe futur simple

The futur antrieur

Conjunctions used with the indicative mood

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10 The plus-que-parfait Formationof the plus-que-parfait Use of the plus-que-parfait

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11 The present conditional and the past conditional

The present conditional 87

The past conditional 92


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12 Could, should,would? 97

Could 97

Should 99

Would 100


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13 The present subjunctive and the pastsubjunctive 104

The present subjunctive Uses of the subjunctive The past subjunctive


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14 The infinitive mood

The infinitifprsent The infinitifpass

Verbs with their prepositions


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15 The present participle and the gerund

The present participle The gerund


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16 The pass simple

Formationof the pass simple

The pass simple of irregular verbs


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17 The passive voice

Formationof the passive voice Uses of the passive voice Avoiding the passive voice in French


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18 Indirect speech

Direct speech versus indirect speech

Balancing tenses: la concordance des temps


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19 The imperative mood Formationof the imperative The imperative of pronominal verbs


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20 Articles and nouns The definitearticle with nouns The indefiniteand partitive articles with nouns

The gender of nouns

The plural of nouns The gender of countries Geographical names with prepositions


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21 All the pronouns

Subject pronouns Direct object pronouns

Indirect object pronouns

The order of object pronouns Disjunctive pronouns


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22 Adjectives and comparisons

Agreement of adjectives The placement of adjectives Adjectives of color Comparatives and superlatives


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23 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns

Demonstrative adjectives Possessive adjectives

Possessive pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns


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24 Relative pronouns

QuiQueLequelODont Ce que, ce qui, ce dont, ce quoi


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25 Adverbs and expressions of time, frequency, andlocation 212

Adverbs and expressions of time Interrogative forms; question words Adverbs and expressions of location


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26 NumbersThe numbers 0 to 50

Ordinal numbers

The numbers 50 to 99

The numbers 100 to 999

The numbers 1,000 and greater


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27 Pot pourri

Verbs that use different prepositions Whatever, whenever, wherever, whoever Avoir beau and quitte


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Verb tables 236

Regular verbs 236

Verbs with spelling changes 238

Verbs with stem changes 238

Irregular verbs 239

French-Englishglossary 240

English-French glossary 250

Answer

key

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