Advanced French Grammar : All You Need to Know for Better Communication : Practice Makes Perfect Series

Advanced French Grammar : All You Need to Know for Better Communication : Practice Makes Perfect Series
ISBN: 9780071476959
Publication Date: 10 April 2008

Take your French grammar skills to the next level and speak with more panache! To fully understand how to speak French effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar focuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally.

Instead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confidence as a French speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises. Inside you will find:

• Thorough explanations of topics that often prove difficult for English speakers when they learn French, such as the correct use of object pronouns.
• Practical exercises that give you the opportunity to test what you've learned

Learn the ins and outs of:

Compound tenses Translating -ing The subjunctive Relative tenses Ce versus ça Prepositions . . . and much more

About the Author

Veronique Mazet, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, and is the author of Correct Your French Blunders.