French Verbs For Dummies

"Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency

Get the hang of French verbs and get over verb hang-ups!

French verbs can drive anyone crazy who's trying to keep track of all the regular and irregular types. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, exercises, and conjugation charts - just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs.

Discover how to

Review regular verbs in the present tense
Cope with common exceptions
Conjugate all simple tenses, from present indicative to past subjunctive
Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs
Conjugate compound tenses

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Title of ebook: French Verbs For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470099612
parent-ISBN: 9780471773887
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 6943 kb
Pages: 286
Published: 08-2006
Released online for download: 08-28-2006
Author of eBook: Erotopoulos PhD, Zoe

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French Verbs For Dummies

Chapter One

Verbs 101: The Lowdown on Verbs

In This Chapter

* Looking at and classifying verbs

* Identifying transitive and intransitive verbs

* Considering mood

* Recognizing the tenses

* Eyeing pronouns

Whether you're speaking English, German, Spanish, or French (just to mention a few languages), a verb is an important word that indicates an action (for example, Je parle means I am speaking, I speak, and I do speak) or a state of being (for example, Je suis optimiste means I am optimistic). The verb is an essential component in a sentence because the sentence is incomplete without it. Verbs are the only words that change their forms in order to indicate the present, the future, and the past. A verb can also have several complements or provide further information. It can be followed by a noun, an adverb, a preposition, or a clause. It can also be followed by another verb, which is always in the infinitive form.

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French Verbs For Dummies

Chapter One

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