Essential French Grammar by Resnick, Seymour -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

DOVER BOOKS ON LANGUAGE Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Suggestions for Vocabulary Building

Written Accents Word Order

Normal word order Negative Word Order

How to Form Questions

Three Common Question Forms Interrogative Adjectives and Pronouns Useful Interrogative Phrases

Nouns and the Definite and Indefinite Articles

Gender of French Nouns The Definite Article Plurals of Nouns The Indefinite Article

Adjectives

Agreement of Adjectives with Nouns How to Form Feminine Singular Adjectives Plurals of Adjectives Placement of Adjectives

Adverbs

How to Form Adverbs in French

Verbs

Comparison of English and French Verbs The Present Tense The Command or Imperative Form The Passé Composé or Past Indefinite Tense The Imperfect Tense The Pluperfect Tense The Future Tense The Conditional Tenses Reflexive Verbs The Passive Voice The Present Participle Prepositions and Infinitives The Subjunctive

Personal Pronouns

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns Prepositional Forms of the Personal Pronouns Table of Personal Pronouns

Expressing Possession

Comparison of Possessives in English and French Possessive Adjectives Expressing Possession after the Verb être

Contraction of à or de and the Definite Article The Partitive Construction

Comparison between French and English How to Use the Partitive Construction

Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns

Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative Pronouns

Comparisons of Adjectives and Adverbs

How to Form the Comparative of Adjectives and Adverbs How to Use the Comparative in French Miscellaneous Comparative Expressions The Superlative Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms

The Relative Pronouns Qui and Que

Compound Relative Pronouns

Negative Expressions Idiomatic Verbs

Aller (to go) Avoir (to have) Devoir (to owe; must, ought) Etre (to be) Faire (to make, do) Falloir (to be necessary) Penser (to think) Savoir (to know) and Connaître (to meet, be acquainted with) Valoir (to be worth) Venir (to come) Vouloir (to want, wish)

Telling Time Some Useful Expressions Vocabulary Tips

Cognates False Cognates

Vocabulary Building with Cognates Table of Common Equivalents LIST OF COGNATES A Glossary of Grammatical Terms INDEX A CATALOG OF SELECTED - DOVER BOOKS