French Workbook For Dummies

Laura K. Lawless earned a BA in International Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She has also done graduate work in French and Spanish translation, interpretation, linguistics, and literature. Laura is the creator of LawlessFrench.com, an online resource for students, teachers, and lovers of French.

Introduction 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