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1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 The Building Blocks of French -- Chapter 1 Getting to Know You -- French Greetings -- Hello -- How are you? -- Won't you tell me your name? -- Using Other Social Niceties Appropriately -- Saying please, thank you, and you're welcome -- Parting ways -- Understanding Subject Pronouns -- Je or nous: The first person -- Tu or vous: The second person |
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Il, elle, or on: The third-person singular -- Ils or elles: The third-person plural -- Answer Key to "Getting to Know You" Practice Questions -- Chapter 2 Understanding Parts of Speech and Bilingual Dictionaries -- Identifying the Parts of Speech -- What's in a name? Nouns -- Articles (not the ones in magazines) -- Doing all the things with verbs -- Describing adjectives -- Using adverbs -- Pronouns: They're replacements -- Prepositions: On top of it -- Connecting with conjunctions -- Correctly Using a Bilingual Dictionary -- Figuring out what to look up -- Considering context and part of speech |
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Understanding symbols and terminology -- Interpreting figurative language and idioms -- Verifying your findings -- Answer Key to "Understanding Parts of Speech and Bilingual Dictionaries" Practice Questions -- Chapter 3 Figuring Out Nouns and Articles -- Genre Bending: Writing with Masculine and Feminine Nouns -- Determining the gender of nouns -- Making nouns feminine -- Nouns that are always masculine or feminine -- Part Deux: Making Nouns Plural -- Remembering your x's: Other plural patterns -- Irregular plurals -- Understanding Article Types, Gender, and Number |
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Defining the definite articles -- Sorting out indefinite articles -- Looking at some partitive articles -- The sum of all articles -- Answer Key to "Figuring Out Nouns and Articles" Practice Questions -- Chapter 4 Showing Up and Owning Up: Demonstratives and Possessives -- A Little of This and That: Using Demonstratives -- Demonstrative adjectives -- Demonstrative pronouns -- Possession: Channeling the Spirit of Ownership -- Possession using de -- Working with possessive adjectives -- Singular subjects -- Yours, mine, and ours: Understanding possessive pronouns |
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Answer Key to "Demonstratives and Possessives" Practice Questions -- Chapter 5 The 4-1-1 on Numbers, Dates, and Time -- Using Numbers -- Counting on cardinal numbers: 1, 2, 3 -- Starting with numbers 0 to 19 -- Mark Your Calendar: Expressing Days, Months, and Dates -- Knowing the days of the week -- An even dozen: Identifying the months -- 'Tis the season -- Day, month, and year: Scoping out the dating scene -- Understanding Time Differences -- Answer Key to "The 4-1-1 on Numbers, Dates, and Time" Practice Questions -- Part 2 The Here and Now: Writing in the Present |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 6 Right Here, Right Now: The Present Tense |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119982043 |
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1119982049 |
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