Demystifying French Grammar: Advanced French Grammar, Clarifying the Accents, Adjectives, Determiners, Questions/Negation, Pronouns, Prepositions, Imparfait/Passé Composé, & the French Subjunctive

1 Introduction

2 Accents
L’accent aigu
L’accent grave
Le tréma
L’accent circonflexe
La cédille

3 Adjectives
Descriptive Adjectives
Adjectives that Precede the Noun
Comparatives/Superlatives
Invariable Adjectives

4 Determiners
Definite Determiners
Indefinite Determiners
Partitive Determiners
Demonstrative Determiners
Possessive Determiners

5 Questions/Negation
Making Questions
Questions with 3rd Person Subject
Negation

6 Pronouns
Subject Pronouns
Direct Object Pronouns
Indirect Object Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Stressed Pronouns
Adverbial Pronouns

7 Tricky Prepositions
Verb + Preposition + Infinitive
Verb + Preposition + Noun
être + Preposition + Adjective
à/en
avant/devant
dans/en
For (pour/pendant/depuis)
With (avec/à)
On (sur/à)

8 Imparfait/Passé Composé
HIDE
Dr. & Mrs. Vanderttrampp
STARS
Aspect
“What was going on?/What happened?”
Event/State
Indirect/Direct Speech
Plus-que-parfait

9 The French Subjunctive
Usage/DINNER
Doubt/Uncertainty
Influence
Non-existence
Negating Certain Verbs
Emotional Reactions
Required Conjunctions
When There Is No Change In Subject
Impersonal Expressions
When que Changes to à ce que
AVOIR DETTE
Past Subjunctive
Formation
When There Is No Change In Subject
Sequence of Tenses/Moods

10 Bringing the Isolated Concepts Together
Determiner + BAGS Adjectives
Negation + Questions
Negation + Pronouns
Negation + Passé Composé
Negation + Infinitive
Negation + Pronouns + Infinitive
Pronouns + Passé Composé
Negation + Pronouns + Passé Composé
Neg. + Question + Pronoun + Passé Composé


Answers to Exercises

Recommended Books

Bibliography