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A witty, fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying and frustrating French bloopers

Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and trusting false cognates are just a few of the blunders English-speaking French-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your French Blunders, veteran French teacher Véronique Mazet identifies these and other common trouble spots and clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of French differ from those of English and why trying to translate word for word, structure for structure, from English, can lead to big trouble.

You will learn to break bad habits and correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for French language patterns-- with the help of:

  • More than 1,000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid
  • A free app available on iTunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders
  • Numerous examples and practical exercises
  • Quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms
  • A "Hall of Shame" compendium of bad errors to recognize and correct
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    ISBN-13: 9780071788243

    Media Type: Paperback

    Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC

    Publication Date: 03-21-2012

    Pages: 384

    Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

    Series: Correct Your Blunders

    Author Information Véronique Mazet Ph.D. is an experienced educator and teacher of French at Austin Community College

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    PRONUNICATION AND SPELLING
    Pronunication
    Spelling
    Capitalization

    GRAMMAR
    Nouns
    Descriptive Adjectives
    Determiners
    Numbers
    Subjects, Objects,and Their Pronouns
    Verbs
    Types of Verbs
    The Infinitive
    The Conjugated Form
    The Indicative
    The Present Tense
    The passé composé
    The imparfait,
    The passé composé versus the imparfait,
    The Pluperfect
    The Future
    The Future Perfect
    The Conditional
    The Present Conditional
    The Past Conditional
    The Subjunctive
    The Subjunctive Mood
    The Present Subjunctive
    The past Subjunctive
    Reported Speech
    Questions and Answers

    VOCABULARY
    Words
    Prepositions
    Constructions
    Catch the Blunders
    Answer Key
    Index of French Words and Expressions
    Subject Index