French Verbs For Dummies (Google eBook)

Erotopoulos

John Wiley & Sons, Jan 11, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 286 pages

Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency

Get the hang of French verbs and get over verb hang-ups!

French verbs can drive anyone crazy who's trying to keep track of all the regular and irregular types. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, exercises, and conjugation charts - just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs.

Discover how to

• Review regular verbs in the present tense
• Cope with common exceptions
• Conjugate all simple tenses, from present indicative to past subjunctive
• Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs
• Conjugate compound tenses

What people are saying

User Review -

I found the book to be very helpful when learning the Passé Composé but found other parts lacking detail. Otherwise it is a good book to learn from.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Verbs 101 The Lowdown on Verbs: 7
• Conjugating Regular Verbs in the Present Tense: 17
• Knowing How to Handle SpellingChange Verbs: 29
• Handling é verbs: 34
• Answer Key: 40
• Wrestling with Some Irregular Conjugations: 43
• Reflecting on Pronominal Verbs Reflexive Reciprocal and Idiomatic: 61
• Forming the Present Participle and the Gerund: 69
• Using Verbs Correctly with Questions: 77
• Telling People What to Do The Regular: 89
• Telling People What to Do The Regular Irregular and Pronominal Commands 89 Chapter 9 Looking Forward and Back The Immediate Future and P...: 101
• Correctly Using Often Misused Verbs in Daily Conversation: 109
• Taking a Look Back The Past Tenses: 119
• Comprehending the Passé Composé and the Pluperfect Tenses: 133
• Creating the Passé Composé with Être: 140
• Using Either Avoir or Être: 146
• Contrasting the Imperfect with the Passé Composé: 153
• Deciphering the Literary Tenses The Passé Simple and Passé Antérieur: 163
• Looking Ahead The Future and the Conditional Tenses: 171
• Completing a Future Action with the Future Perfect: 183
• Coulding and Woulding with the Present Conditional Tense: 191
• Trying the Past Conditional Tense Could Have and Would Have: 201
• Considering Your Mood Subjunctive or Not: 209
• Knowing How to Use the Present Subjunctive: 223
• Forming and Using the Past Subjunctive: 237
• The Part of Tens: 243
• Ten Most Frequently MixedUp Verbs: 249
• FrenchtoEnglish Verb Glossary: 257
• EnglishtoFrench Verb Glossary: 263
• Conjugating Common Irregular Verbs: 269
• Index: 283

About the author

Zoe Erotopoulos was born in Macedonia, Hellas (Greece) and immigrated to the United States with her parents and brother at a young age. Her love of the French language and literature inspired her to pursue her academic dream. She holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University in New York City. She has also studied in Aix-en-Provence, at the Sorbonne, and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Her teaching experience in French ranges from elementary to advanced level courses, including literature and theater. Dr. Erotopoulos’ area of expertise is 17th century French Theater. She has taught at a number of institutions, including Columbia University, Reid Hall in Paris, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. For the past 15 years, she has been teaching in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She serves as coordinator and supervisor of a number of teacher assistants each year. Dr. Erotopoulos lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: French Verbs For Dummies
• Author: Erotopoulos
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118068564, 9781118068564
• Length: 286 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / French