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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 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
