English Grammar for Students in French

Contents

1. What's in a Word?
2. What is a Noun?
3. What is Meant by Gender?
4. What is Meant by Number?
5. What is an Article?
   1. Definite articles
   2. Indefinite articles
   3. Partitive articles
   4. Study Tips — Nouns and their gender
6. What is the Possessive?
7. What is a Verb?
8. What is the Infinitive?
   1. Consulting the dictionary
   2. Study Tips — Verbs
9. What is a Subject?
10. What is a Pronoun?
11. What is a Subject Pronoun?
    1. Study Tips — Subject pronouns
12. What is a Verb Conjugation?
    1. Choosing the proper "person"
    2. How to conjugate a verb
    3. Study Tips — Verb conjugations
13. What are Auxiliary Verbs?
14. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?
    1. Negative Words
15. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?
    1. Tag questions
16. What is Meant by Tense?
    1. Study Tips — Tenses
17. What is the Present Tense?
18. What is a Participle?
    1. Present participle
    2. Past participle
19. What is the Past Tense?
    1. Le passé composé (present perfect)
    2. L’imparfait (imperfect)
    3. Selection: le passé composé or l’imparfait
    4. Study Tips — The passé composé
20. What is the Past Perfect Tense?
21. What is the Future Tense?
    1. The immediate future
    2. Study Tips — The future tense
22. What is the Future Perfect Tense?
23. What is Meant by Mood?
24. What is the Imperative?
25. What is the Conditional?
    1. Present conditional
    2. Past conditional
    3. If-clauses sequence of tenses
    4. Use of the conditional in indirect speech
26. What is the Subjunctive?
27. What is an Adjective?
28. What is a Descriptive Adjective?
    1. Attributive and predicate Adjectives
    2. Study Tips — Descriptive adjectives
29. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?
    1. Comparative
    2. Superlative
30. What is a Possessive Adjective?
    1. Singular possessor: my, your, his, her, its
    2. Plural possessor: our, your, their
    3. Study Tips — Possessive adjectives
31. What is an Interrogative Adjective?
32. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?
33. What is an Adverb?
    1. Adverb or adjective?
    2. Study Tips — Adverbs
34. What is a Conjunction?
    1. Study Tips — Conjunctions and the subjunctive
35. What is a Preposition?
    1. Study Tips — Prepositions
36. What are Objects?
    1. Direct object
    2. Indirect object
    3. Sentences with a direct and an indirect object
    4. Object of a preposition
    5. Relationship of a verb to its object
37. What is an Object Pronoun?
    1. French direct object pronouns
    2. French indirect object pronouns
    3. Summary of object pronouns
    4. Study Tips — Object pronouns
38. What is a Disjunctive Pronoun?
    1. French pronouns as objects of a preposition
    2. Summary of object and disjunctive pronouns
39. What are Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs?
    1. Reciprocal action
40. What is a Possessive Pronoun?
    1. Singular possessor: mine, yours, his, hers
    2. Plural possessor: ours, yours, theirs
    3. Study Tips — Possessive pronouns
41. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?
    1. Subject
    2. Direct object
    3. Indirect object and object of a preposition
    4. “Which (one), which (ones)”
    5. Study Tips — Interrogative pronouns
42. What is a Relative Pronoun?
    1. Subject
    2. Direct object
    3. Indirect object and object of a preposition
    4. French relative pronouns objects of
       prepositions other than de
    5. French relative pronouns objects of
       the preposition de
    6. Possessive modifier “whose”
    7. Relative pronouns without antecedents
43. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?
    1. “This one, that one” and “these, those”
    2. To show possession: celui de
    3. “The one that”: celui qui, celui que
44. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?
    1. Making an active sentence passive
    2. Avoiding the passive voice in French

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