English Grammar for Students of French : The Study Guide for Those Learning French

by Morton, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780934034296
• ISBN10: 093403429X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: OLIVIA

Table of Contents

To the Student	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
1. What is a Noun?	4	(2)
2. What is Meant by Gender?	6	(3)
3. What is Meant by Number?	9	(2)
4. What are Articles?	11	(5)
Definite Articles	11	(2)
Indefinite Articles	13	(1)
Partitive Articles	14	(2)
5. What is the Possessive?	16	(3)
6. What is a Verb?	19	(2)
7. What is an Infinitive?	21	(3)
8. What is a Subject?	24	(2)
9. What is a Pronoun?	26	(2)
10. What is a Subject Pronoun?	28	(5)
11. What is a Verb Conjugation?	33	(6)
Choosing the proper "person"	34	(2)
How to conjugate a verb	36	(3)
12. What are Auxiliary Verbs?	39	(3)
13. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?	42	(3)
Negative Words	43	(2)
14. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?	45	(4)
Tag Questions	47	(2)
15. What is Meant by Tense?	49	(2)
16. What is the Present Tense?	51	(2)
17. What is a Participle?	53	(3)
Present Participle	53	(1)
Past Participle	54	(2)
18. What is the Past Tense?	56	(5)
Le passe compose (present perfect)	56	(2)
Selection of the auxiliary avoir or etre	57	(1)
Agreement of the past participle	57	(1)
L'imparfait (imperfect)	58	(1)
Selection: le passe compose or l'imparfait	59	(2)
19. What is the Past Perfect Tense?	61	(3)
20. What is the Future Tense?	64	(3)
The Immediate Future	65	(2)
21. What is the Future Perfect Tense?	67	(2)
22. What is Meant by Mood?	69	(2)
23. What is the Imperative?	71	(2)
24. What is the Conditional?	73	(5)
Present Conditional?	73	(2)
Past Conditional	75	(1)
Sequence of Tenses	76	(2)
25. What is the Subjunctive?	78	(2)
26. What is an Adjective?	80	(1)
27. What is a Descriptive Adjective?	81	(3)
Nouns Used as Adjectives	83	(1)
28. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?	84	(4)
Comparative	84	(1)
Superlative	85	(3)
29. What is a Possessive Adjective?	88	(5)
Singular Possessor: my, your, his, her, its	89	(1)
Plural Possessor: our, your, their	90	(3)
30. What is an Interrogative Adjective?	93	(2)
31. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?	95	(2)
32. What is an Adverb?	97	(3)
33. What is a Conjunction?	100	(2)
34. What is a Preposition?	102	(2)
35. What are Objects?	104	(7)
Direct Object	104	(1)
Indirect Object	105	(2)
Object of a Preposition	107	(1)
Relationship of a Verb to its Objects	107	(4)
36. What is an Object Pronoun?	111	(12)
French Direct Object Pronouns	112	(2)
French Indirect Object Pronouns	114	(2)
French Pronouns as Objects of a Preposition	116	(3)
Disjunctive (Stress) Pronouns	119	(4)
37. What are Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs?	123	(5)
Reciprocal Action	125	(3)
38. What is a Possessive Pronoun?	128	(5)
Singular Possessor: mine, yours, his, hers	129	(2)
Plural Possessor: ours, yours, theirs	131	(2)
39. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?	133	(8)
Subject	133	(1)
Direct Object	134	(1)
Indirect Object and Object of a Preposition	135	(3)
"Which (one), which (ones)"	138	(3)
40. What is a Relative Pronoun?	141	(14)
Subject of the Relative Clause	142	(2)
Direct Object of the Relative Clause	144	(2)
Indirect Object and Object of a Preposition in a Relative Clause	146	(3)
French relative pronouns objects of prepositions other than de	147	(1)
French relative pronouns objects of the preposition de	148	(1)
Possessive Modifier "whose"	149	(3)
Relative Pronouns without Antecedents	152	(3)
41. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?	155	(5)
"This one, that one" and "these, those"	155	(1)
To Show Possession: Celui de	156	(2)
"The one that": Celui qui, celui que	158	(2)
42. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?	160	(5)
Making an Active Sentence Passive	162	(1)
Avoiding the Passive Voice in French	162	(3)
Answer Key	165	(4)
Index	169