Table of Contents

Part One: Verbs - Basic Forms and Uses
1. Present Tense
2. Present tense of irregular verbs
3. Negative sentences
4. Interrogative sentences
5. Imperative
6. Passé composé
7. Imperfect; imperfect versus passé composé
8. Reflexive verbs
9. Future and conditional; conditional sentences
10. Pluperfect, future perfect, and past conditional
11. Passé simple
12. Present participles; uses of the infinitive

Part Two: Nouns and Their Modifiers; Pronouns
13. Nouns: gender, number and articles; uses of articles
14. Stressed pronouns; subject-verb agreement
15. Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
16. Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
17. Adjectives; comparative and superlative
18. Object pronouns

Part Three: Other Elements of the Sentence
19. Numbers; time; dates
20. Adverbs
21. Negatives and indefinites
22. Prepositions; prepositions with geographical names

Part Four: Verbs in Two – Clause Sentences
23. Relative clauses
24. The present subjunctive
25. The past subjunctive; literary subjunctives
26. The subjunctive (continued)

Part Five: Idiomatic Usage
27. The passive voice and substitutes for the passive
28. Important idioms and proverbs

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Index

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