Learn French with a French Grammar Designed for English Speakers
8th Edition — New format & updated text
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To show you how to get from an English to a French sentence structure.
Straightforward lessons that focus on the rules and not the exceptions. Covers the French grammar taught in beginning college courses.
Tips to help you learn common French verbs and word forms, and to remember them.
In each bite-sized lesson, author Jacqueline Morton explains one grammar rule and illustrates it with English and French examples.
To help you learn French grammar from the point of view of a language you already speak.
Learn terms used in English and French grammar such as conjugation, gender, number, and agreement—they play a minor role in English, but an important role in French.
Example: Agreement explains why big is grand when it describes a car, but grande when it describes a house.
Learn how to get from an English structure to an equivalent French sentence structure. Our examples will take you every step of the way.
Example: Here is the boy I spoke to is Voici le garçon à qui j’ai parlé (word-for-word: Here is the boy to whom I spoke)
Learn what are parts of speech so you can identify English and French nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions. This will help you choose the correct French equivalent to the English word.
Example: Play is joue if it’s a verb and pièce if it’s a noun.
Learn to identify the function of words used in English and French grammar so you can choose the correct French equivalent to the English word.
Learn what are English and French subjects, French direct and indirect objects.
Example: Him is le if it’s a direct object, and lui if it’s an indirect object.