Table Of ContentPreface 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
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