French for Reading and Translation

ISBN-13: 9780367344559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 222 str.

Shannon R. Becker

Opis

French for Reading and Translation is a comprehensive introduction to French grammar and vocabulary for those who want to learn to read and understand French, either to conduct academic research or to experience French literature in its original form.

Spis treści

Preliminary Chapter: Reading strategies, cognates, and pronunciation; 1: Nouns, articles, and prepositions; 2: Subjects and verbs, present tense, questions; 3: Adjectives and adverbs; 4: More determiners; 5: The imperfect and the compound past; 6: Reflexive and reciprocal verbs; 7: Direct and indirect object pronouns; 8: Relative and interrogative pronouns; 9: Demonstrative, possessive, and disjunctive pronouns; 10: Future tense and conditional mood; 11: Impersonal expressions and obligation; 12: Present participles, past participles, and infinitives; 13: Simple past; 14: More compound tenses; 15: Common idiomatic and academic constructions

O autorze

Shannon R. Becker is Assistant Professor of French at Northern Illinois University, USA.