The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice: Mastering Verbs and Sentence Building for Confident Communication (The Ultimate Verb Review And Practice Series) - Softcover

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David M. Stillman, Ph.D., teaches Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew at The College of New Jersey.

Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D., is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, and history.

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Master the essential building blocks of French-language fluency with facilité

The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice offers you an exciting new way to gain the confidence and skills you need to take the next big step on the road to French fluency. More than just another French verb guide, it provides you with a concise review of verb forms and extensive practice in tense usage. You are then encouraged to apply your knowledge of verb forms to sentence construction.

As you work through a series of increasingly more demanding exercises, you'll quickly build your mastery of the French sentence--from simple subject-plus-verb sentences to more sophisticated ones, including conditional and compound sentences. Also, by continually comparing and contrasting French and English verb tenses and sentence structures, the authors further demystify the conventions of French sentence construction.

The ideal resource for experienced beginners through advanced learners of French, The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice gives you:

• Numerous examples of how French verbs and sentence structures work in everyday language
• Exercises in a variety of formats, including sentence completion, sentence building, dialogue writing, translation, verb-form replacement, and more
• Hundreds of verbs listed in both structural and semantic groupings
• Up-to-the-minute coverage of contemporary French, including computer and technology verbs
• Dozens of clear, concise, at-a-glance charts and tables