Heminway Annie. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One

2nd Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. — ix, 644 p. — (Practice Makes Perfect). — ISBN: 978-1-26-012104-9.The most comprehensive way to learn French – with seven bestselling books in one!Drawn from seven workbooks from the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, this powerhouse volume features all the knowledge and practice you need to master French. With Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, you will build your French vocabulary, straighten out your sentences, overcome your fear of verb tenses, master the intricacies of grammar, and much more. This value-packed workbook covers all the facets of French and offers thorough explanations that are reinforced by hundreds of hands-on practice exercises.You will, or course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using all your new French skills. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning French class, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One will help you master French in no time at all.Annie Heminway, editor, teaches grammar, creative writing, translation, African cinema, and classic and Francophone literature at the SCPS of New York University. She is also a translator and an editor for Francophone publishers. In 2006 she was awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government in recognition of her work in promoting the study of French.Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One helps you:Learn French vocabulary
Get a solid grasp on grammar
Determine when to use different verb tenses
Master spelling and punctuate rules
Converse confidently in your new language
Build correct sentence structuresArticles
Basic gender endings: Masculin and féminin
More French nouns and their gender
Numbers
Vocabulary: Thoughts, feelings, communicating, home, travel, science, leisure, and technology
Building sentences
Asking questions
Exclamations and commands
Independent clauses and subordinate clauses
The present tense of -er verbs
The present of -ir and -re verbs
Être, avoir, and other irregular verbs
The immediate future, the immediate past, and the causative form
Pronominal verbs
The passé composé
The imparfait and the plus-que-parfait
The simple future and the past future
The present conditional and the past conditional
Could, should, would?
The present subjunctive and the past subjunctive
Prepositions
The infinitive mood
The imperative mood
The present participle and gerund
The simple past, the passive voice, and indirect speech
Pronouns
Relative pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Written French: Making transitions and written correspondence
Verb transfers and confusing verbs
Whatever, whenever, wherever: French oddities and fun with prepositions
French in conversation: Meeting people
French in conversation: Making conversation and making plans
French in conversation: Discussing current events
French in conversation: Asking for help
A taste of French literatureFrench pronunciation
Grammatical terminology for verbs
French verb tables
French-English / English-French glossary
Answer key
Translations