Practice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

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Verbs, conjugation, explanation and usage - this book does it all, all you have to do is the learning! (1/1 people found this helpful)

I have always struggled with French verbs - a forty year old mental block - and although my French is reasonably, my conjugation and verb usage has always let me down. This book has really made a difference - the descriptions of when to use what conjugation is excellent and for the first time I feel that I am really getting to grips with the vaguaries and intracacies of the French language. The excercises are fun - and if you work your way through them all methodically - you will have learned an enormous amount. The order in which the verbs are set out is something of a surprise but this fact might well be deliberate - it certainly makes you think a bit more. There are no quick fixes to learning grammar and conjugation, you just have to buckle down and learn it - if you are prepared to put in the time, this book will certainly give you a really good head start.

French Verbs Inside and Out (7/9 people found this helpful)

I have read the Spanish version of this book, and this book is just as good. The explanations of the present tense, the passe compose, the imparfait, and the subjunctive are formidable. The book is divided into the following sections:

1. The Present Tense of Regular Verbs
2. The Present Tense of Irregular Verbs
3. A few impersonal verbs
4. Reflexive Verbs
5. The passe compose
6. The imperfect tense (l'imparfait)
7. The pluperfect tense (le plus-que-parfait)
8. The passe simple
9. The Future Tenses
10. The conditional
11. The subjunctive
12. The infinitive
13. The imperative
14. The present participle and the gerund
15. The Passive Voice

Although this book was great, I wish it had a better explanation of the subjunctive. It explained the present du subjonctif and the passe du subjonctif, but not the imparfait du subjonctif or the plus-que-parfait du subjonctif.

I liked the explanations of the passe compose and the imparfait, but the explanations are pretty much the same as in any other French grammar book. The same goes for the subjunctive. I don't particulary understand why the infinitive was explained at the END of the book. I think it should've been at the beginning.

Brandon Simpson

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