French for Oral and Written Review

by Carlut, Charles; Meiden, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780030758997
• ISBN10: 0030758998
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This text is designed to review all the common elements of French grammar, both orally and in written French. Numerous all-French exercises are provided, in addition to English-to-French translations of various French phrases.

Table of Contents

To the Teacher	x
To the Student	xiii
Interrogatives	1	(13)
Une soiree perdue	1	(13)
Rene Goscinny
Interrogative Adjectives	3	(1)
Interrogative Pronouns	4	(6)
Problem Words : Actually, advice, again, agree	10	(4)
Adjectives	14	(16)
Miracle dans le desert	14	(16)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Formation and Agreement of Adjectives	16	(4)
Comparison of Adjectives	20	(2)
Position of Adjectives	22	(4)
Problem Words : become, better, bring, can	26	(4)
Adverbs	30	(15)
Les chiens	30	(15)
Jacques Lacarriere
Formation of Adverbs	32	(1)
Position of Adverbs	33	(3)
Negative Constructions	36	(5)
Problem Words : change, character, day (morning, evening)	41	(4)
Use of Tenses	45	(16)
Le petit coq noir	45	(16)
Marcel Ayme
The Present	47	(1)
The Future	48	(1)
The Conditional	49	(1)
The Pluperfect and Related Tenses	50	(3)
The Future Perfect	53	(1)
Conditional Sentences	54	(3)
Problem Words : early, end, escape, every	57	(4)
Personal Pronouns	61	(16)
Christophe Colomb	61	(16)
Yves Berger
Object Pronouns and Their Uses	63	(2)
Position of Object Pronouns	65	(2)
Disjunctive Pronouns	67	(4)
Problem Words : expect, fail, feel, get	71	(6)
Past Tenses in Narration	77	(13)
Textes varies du dix-neuvieme et du vingtieme siecle (Camus, Chateaubriand, Dumas)	77	(13)
Problem Words : go, happen, hear	85	(5)
Possessives	90	(12)
Le souterrain	90	(12)
Francoise Mallet-Joris
Possessive Adjectives	92	(1)
Possessive Adjectives with Nouns (Parts of the Body)	93	(3)
Possessive Pronouns	96	(2)
Problem Words : intend, introduce, a knock, know	98	(4)
Participles	102	(17)
Pages blanches	102	(17)
Romain Gary
The Past Participle	104	(5)
The Present Participle	109	(5)
Problem Words : lack, last night, late, leave	114	(5)
Demonstratives	119	(15)
Le tableau soluble	119	(15)
Claude Spaak
The Demonstrative Adjective	121	(2)
The Indefinite Demonstrative Pronouns	123	(1)
The Definite Demonstrative Pronouns	123	(3)
The Demonstrative Pronoun ce	126	(1)
The Indefinite ce	126	(2)
The Introductory ce	128	(3)
Problem Words : little, live, long, make	131	(3)
Relatives	134	(12)
Manifestation au lycee de Lausanne	134	(12)
Jacques Chessex
Problem Words : marry, miss, more, next	142	(4)
The Subjunctive	146	(21)
Villes d'Amerique	146	(21)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Problem Words : notice, opportunity, paper, people	162	(5)
The Article	167	(17)
Moi, le plus heureux des Francais?	167	(17)
Georges Brassens
Problem Words : piece, place, rather, reason	179	(5)
Indefinite Nouns	184	(14)
La maison	184	(14)
Andre Maurois
Problem Words : return, room, save, sit	193	(5)
The Passive Voice and the Causative Construction	198	(16)
Emancipation	198	(16)
Francoise Sagan
The Passive Voice	200	(6)
The Causative Construction	206	(4)
Problem Words : soon, spend, stop, such	210	(4)
The Verb devoir	214	(13)
Souvenirs du Canada	214	(13)
Gabrielle Roy
Problem Words : take, teach, time	221	(6)
Constructions with Prepositions	227	(21)
Pourquoi j'ai choisi d'ecrire	227	(21)
Simone de Beauvoir
Prepositions of Place	228	(1)
To, In, At	228	(3)
From	231	(1)
Verb + Preposition + Infinitive	232	(3)
The a + de Verbs	235	(1)
Verb (+ Preposition) + Noun	236	(3)
The It is + Adjective + Infinitive Constructions	239	(1)
Verbal Constructions after Prepositions; Constructions with pour	240	(4)
Problem Words : very much, visit, while, wish	244	(4)
Problem Prepositions	248	(23)
L'Espace d'Amerique	248	(23)
Jules Romains
English Words that are both Prepositions and Conjunctions	250	(4)
Other English Prepositions that Pose Problems in French	254	(12)
Problem Words : would, year, yes, young men	266	(5)
Exercices d'ensemble	271	(62)
Verbs	333	(24)
The Organization of the French Verb	333	(3)
The Conjugation of the Verb	336	(18)
Verbs with Spelling Changes	354	(3)
Vocabularies	357	(68)
French-English Vocabulary	357	(46)
English-French Vocabulary	403	(22)
Index	425