| Introduction.
Part I: The Building Blocks of French.
Chapter 1: Understanding Parts of Speech and Bilingual Dictionaries.
Chapter 2: Figuring Out Nouns, Articles, and Possession.
Chapter 3: The 4-1-1 on Numbers, Dates, and Time.
Part II: The Here and Now: Writing in the Present.
Chapter 4: Right Here, Right Now: The Present Tense.
Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions.
Chapter 6: Just Say No: The Negative.
Chapter 7: “To Be” or “Being” Is the Question: Infinitives and Present Participles.
Chapter 8: Deciphering the Subjunctive Mood.
Part III: Writing with Panache: Dressing Up Your Sentences.
Chapter 9: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs.
Chapter 10: I Command You: The Imperative.
Chapter 11: Sorting Out Pronominal Verbs: Idioms, Oneself, and Each Other.
Chapter 12: An Ode to Prepositions.
Chapter 13: Getting a Hold on Pronouns.
Chapter 14: Grasping Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns.
Part IV: That Was Then, and What Will Be, Will Be: The Past and Future Tenses.
Chapter 15: It’s All in the Past: Passé Composé.
Chapter 16: What Was Happening? The Imparfait Tense.
Chapter 17: It’s All Over! Other Past Tenses.
Chapter 18: What’ll You Do? The Future.
Chapter 19: What Would You Do? The Conditional Mood.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Common French Mistakes and How to Avoid ’Em.
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Begin a Letter in French.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Verb Charts.
Appendix B: English-French Dictionary.
Appendix C: French-English Dictionary.
Index.
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