"A witty, fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying and frustrating French bloopers
Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and trusting false cognates are just a few of the blunders English-speaking French-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your French Blunders, veteran French teacher Véronique Mazet identifies these and other common trouble spots and clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of French differ from those of English and why trying to translate word for word, structure for structure, from English, can lead to big trouble.
You will learn to break bad habits and correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for French language patterns with the help of:
More than 1,000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid A free app available on iTunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders Numerous examples and practical exercises Quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms A ""Hall of Shame"" compendium of bad errors to recognize and correct"
By:
Véronique Mazet,
Veronica Mazet
Imprint: McGraw Hill
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 206mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9780071788243
ISBN 10: 0071788247
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 24 April 2012
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction PRONUNICATION AND SPELLINGPronunicationSpellingCapitalization GRAMMARNounsDescriptive AdjectivesDeterminersNumbersSubjects, Objects,and Their PronounsVerbs Types of Verbs The Infinitive The Conjugated Form The Indicative The Present Tense The passé composé The imparfait, The passé composé versus the imparfait, The Pluperfect The Future The Future Perfect The Conditional The Present Conditional The Past Conditional The Subjunctive The Subjunctive Mood The Present Subjunctive The past Subjunctive Reported Speech Questions and AnswersVOCABULARY Words Prepositions ConstructionsCatch the BlundersAnswer KeyIndex of French Words and ExpressionsSubject Index
