Includes an index.

Study Tips

Study guide

Tips for learning vocabulary

Tips for learning word forms

List of Study Tips

1.What's in a Word?

2. What's in a Noun?

3. What is Meant by Gender?

4. What is Meant by Number?

5. What is an Article?
Definite Article
Indefinite Article
Partitive Article
Study Tips - Nouns and their gender

6. What is the Possessive?

7. What is a Verb?

8. What is the Infinitive?
Consulting the dictionary
Study Tips - Verbs

9. What is a Subject?

10. What is a Pronoun?

11. What is a Subject Pronoun?
Study Tips - Subject pronouns

12. What is a Verb Conjugation?
Choosing the proper "person"
How to conjugate a verb
Study Tips - Verb conjugations

13. What are Auxiliary Verbs?

14. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?
Negative Words

15. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?
Tag questions

16. What is Meant by Tense?
Study Tips - Tenses

17. What is the Present Tense?

18. What is a Participle?
Present participle
Past participle

19. What is the Past tense?
Le passé composé (present perfect)
L'imparfait (imperfect) Selection: le passé composé or l'imparfait
Study Tips - The passé composé

20. What is the Past Perfect Tense?

21. What is the Future Tense?
The immediate future
Study Tips

22. What is the Future Perfect Tense?

23. What is Meant by Mood?

24. What is the Imperative?

25. What is the Conditional? Present conditional
Past conditional
If-clauses sequence of tenses
Use of the conditional in indirect speech

26. What is the Subjunctive?

27. What is an Adjective?

28. What is a Descriptive Adjective? Attributive and predicate Adjectives
Study Tips - Descriptive Adjectives

29. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?
Comparative
Superlative

30. What is a Possessive Adjective?
Singular possessor: my, your, his, her, its
Plural possessor: our, your, their
Study Tips - Possessive Adjectives

31. What is an Interrogative Adjective?

32. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?

33. What is an Adverb?
Adverb or adjective?
Study Tips - Adverbs

34. What is a Conjunction?
Study Tips - Conjunctions and the subjunctive

35. What is a Preposition?
Study Tips - Prepositions

36. What are Objects?
Direct object
Indirect object
Sentences with a direct and an indirect object
Object of a preposition
Relationship of a verb to its object

37. What is an Object Pronoun?
French direct object pronouns
French indirect object pronouns
Summary of object pronouns
Study Tips - Object pronouns

38. What is a Disjunctive Pronoun?
French pronouns as objects of a preposition
Summary of object and disjunctive pronouns

39. What are Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs?
Reciprocal action

40. What is a Possessive Pronoun?
Singular possessor: mine, yours, his, hers
Plural possessor: ours, yours, theirs
Study Tips - Possessive pronouns

41. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?
Subject
Direct object
Indirect object and object of a preposition
"Which (one), which (ones)" Study Tips - Interrogative pronouns

42. What is a Relative Pronoun?
Subject
Direct object
Indirect object and object of a preposition
French relative pronouns objects of prepositions other than de
French relative pronouns objects of the preposition de
Possessive modifier "whose"
Relative pronouns, without antecedents

43. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?
"This one, that one" and "these, those"
To show possession: celui de
"The one that": celui qui, celui que

44. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?
Making an active sentence passive
Avoiding the passive voice in French

"English Grammar for Students of French explains the grammatical terms that are in your French textbook and shows you how they relate to English grammar. Once you understand the terms and concepts as they apply to your own language, it will be easier for you to understand what is being introduced in your textbook and by your teacher. To help you become a more efficient language learner, we offer specific Study Tips for learning different types of words." (p. 1)