A good grasp of grammar enables the foreign-language learner to build skill and confidence in communication. Here's the "ultimate," painless way for intermediate and advanced learners to brush up on the rules. Each grammatical concept is explained and then illustrated with lively sentence examples; extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation. Also included are "culture notes," authentic documents, vocabulary boxes, and verb charts, as well as a full answer key and index.
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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, Passe Compose
7. Inperfect ; Imperfect versus passe compose
8. Reflexive Verbs
9. Future and Conditional ; conditional sentences (1)
10. Pluperfect, future, perfect, and past conditional; conditional sentecnes (2)
11. Passe simple
12. Present participles; uses of the infinitives
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
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PART THREE : Other Elements of the Sentence
PART FOUR : Verbs in Two-Clause Sentences
PART FIVE : IDIOMATIC USAGE
Verb Charts
Answers
Index