The ultimate French review and practice : mastering French grammar for confident communication

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ISBN: 9780071744140 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
optical disc
xiv, 426 p. ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill, c2011.

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I: Verbs; basic forms and their uses -- Present tense -- Present tense of irregular verbs -- Negative sentences -- Interrogative sentences -- Imperative -- Passé composé -- Imperfect; imperfect versus passé composé -- Reflexive verbs -- Future and conditional; conditional sentences (1) -- Pluperfect, future perfect, and past conditional; conditional sentences (2) -- Passé simple -- Present participles; uses of the infinitive -- Part II: Nouns and their modifiers; pronouns -- Nouns : gender, number, and articles; uses of articles -- Stressed pronouns; subject-verb agreement -- Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns -- Interrogative adjectives and pronouns, and other question words -- Adjectives, comparatives, and superlatives -- Object pronouns -- Part III: Other elements of the sentence -- Numbers; time; dates -- Adverbs -- Negatives and indefinites -- Prepositions; prepositions with geographical names -- Part IV: Verbs in two-clause sentences -- Relative clauses -- The present subjunctive -- The past subjunctive; literary subjunctives -- The subjunctive (continued) -- Part V: Idiomatic usage -- The passive voice and substitutes for the passive -- Important idioms and proverbs.
System Details Note:	System requirements for CD-ROM: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7; MAC OS X 10.3x, 10.4x, 10.5x; Pentium II, AMD K6-2 or better; Power PC (G3 recommended) or better; any Intel processor 256 MB RAM.