Synopses & Reviews
Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue!Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.
Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:
- Mispronunciation and misspelling
- Applying English grammar patterns to French
- Putting verbs in the wrong tense
- Using incorrect prepositions in expressions
- Forgetting agreements in gender and number
- Hanging out with faux amis (false cognates)
Correct Your French Blunders offers exercises covering all parts of grammar and wraps it all up with review passages to check that you are blunder-free. Soon, biting your nails will be your only bad habit!
Synopsis
Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue! Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.
Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:
- Mispronunciation and misspelling
- Applying English grammar patterns to French
- Putting verbs in the wrong tense
- Using incorrect prepositions in expressions
- Forgetting agreements in gender and number
- Hanging out with faux amis (false cognates)
About the Author
Véronique Mazet, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of French at Austin Community College.
Table of Contents
Introductions
PRONUNICATION AND SPELLING Pronunication
Spelling Capitalization
GRAMMAR Nouns
Descriptive Adjectives Determiners
Numbers Subjects, Objects,and Their Pronouns
Verbs Types of Verbs
The Infinitive The Conjugated Form
The Indicative The Present Tense
The passé composé The imparfait,
The passé composé versus the imparfait, The Pluperfect
The Future The Future Perfect
The Conditional The Present Conditional
The Past Conditional The Subjunctive
The Subjunctive Mood The Present Subjunctive
The past Subjunctive Reported Speech
Questions and Answers
VOCABULARY
Words Prepositions
Constructions Catch the Blunders
Answer Key Index of French Words and Expressions
Subject Index