Title Page Page: i Copyright Page Page: ii Contents Page: iii Preface Page: xi I: First Elements of French Page: 1 1 Nouns, Articles, and Descriptive Adjectives Page: 3 Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles Page: 3 The Definite Article Page: 3 The Indefinite Article Page: 7 Plural Nouns Page: 8 Descriptive Adjectives Page: 11 Key Vocabulary Page: 16 Key Vocabulary Page: 18 2 The Verbs être and avoir, Subject Pronouns, and Negation Page: 21 The Verb Page: 21 The Verbs être (to be) and avoir (to have) Page: 21 Être and Subject Pronouns Page: 22 Key Vocabulary Page: 30 Negation with ne... pas Page: 31 The Verb avoir (to have) Page: 32 Key Vocabulary Page: 38 Reading Comprehension: La maison de Jean-Pierre Page: 40 3 Days and Months, Regular -er Verbs in the Present Tense, and Interrogatives Page: 42 Days of the Week, Months, and Seasons Page: 42 Regular Verbs in the Present Tense Page: 45 Conjugating Regular -er Verbs Page: 45 Uses of the Present Tense Page: 48 Interrogatives and Interrogative Words Page: 52 Key Vocabulary Page: 62 Reading Comprehension: Une petite ville en province Page: 64 4 Numbers, Dates, and Time and Regular -ir Verbs in the Present Tense Page: 66 Cardinal Numbers Page: 66 Ordinal Numbers Page: 70 The Date and the Year Page: 72 Telling Time Page: 75 Regular -ir Verbs in the Present Tense Page: 78 Key Vocabulary Page: 82 Key Vocabulary Page: 83 Reading Comprehension: Au restaurant Page: 85 5 Regular -re Verbs in the Present Tense and -er Verbs with Spelling Changes Page: 87 Regular -re Verbs in the Present Tense Page: 87 Key Vocabulary Page: 90 Depuis Versus Since Page: 91 -er Verbs with Spelling Changes Page: 93 Key Vocabulary Page: 104 Reading Comprehension: En ville Page: 107 6 Expressing the Future with aller, Prepositions, and the Verb faire Page: 109 The Verb aller (to go) Page: 109 Key Vocabulary Page: 111 À, de, and Other Prepositions Page: 113 Interrogatives with Prepositions Page: 122 Key Vocabulary Page: 124 Prepositions with Geographical Names Page: 125 The Verb faire (to do; to make) Page: 129 Key Vocabulary Page: 135 Reading Comprehension: Des projets de vacances Page: 136 7 Irregular Verbs I and Verb + Verb Constructions Page: 138 Learning Irregular Verbs Page: 138 Verbs like partir (to leave, depart) Page: 138 Verbs like venir (to come; to arrive) Page: 140 Dire (to say, tell), lire (to read), and écrire (to write) Page: 143 Verbs like mettre (to put [on], place) Page: 145 Pouvoir (to be able to) and vouloir (to want to, wish to) Page: 147 The Verb devoir (to have to; to owe) Page: 148 Verbs like recevoir (to receive; to have guests) Page: 150 Verb + Verb Constructions Page: 152 Key Vocabulary Page: 157 Reading Comprehension: Mes décisions Page: 158 8 Irregular Verbs II and Relative Pronouns Page: 161 Connaître (to know, be acquainted with) Versus savoir (to know [facts]) Page: 161 Voir (to see) and croire (to believe) Page: 165 Courir (to run) and rire (to laugh) Page: 166 The Group offrir (to offer) Page: 167 The Group conduire (to drive; to lead) Page: 169 Suivre (to follow; to take a course) and vivre (to live) Page: 169 The Group craindre (to be afraid of) Page: 170 Relative Pronouns: qui, que, où, dont, and lequel Page: 173 Indefinite Relative Pronouns: Statements from Questions Page: 180 Key Vocabulary Page: 182 Reading Comprehension: Une nouvelle carrière Page: 184 9 Prendre and boire, the Partitive Article, and Object Pronouns Page: 186 The Group prendre and the Verb boire Page: 186 The Partitive Article Page: 189 Direct Objects Page: 193 Indirect Objects Page: 196 The Pronouns y and en Page: 199 Key Vocabulary Page: 204 Reading Comprehension: Le jardin zoologique idéal Page: 205 10 Possessives, Demonstratives, Comparatives, and Adverbs Page: 208 Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns Page: 208 Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns Page: 212 Comparatives and Superlatives Page: 216 Adverbs Page: 221 Key Vocabulary Page: 226 Key Vocabulary Page: 227 Reading Comprehension: La famille française moderne Page: 229 II: Affirmative and Negative Expressions, Forming the Imperative, and Using Pronominal Verbs Page: 231 11 Affirmatives Versus Negatives, Stressed Pronouns, and the Imperative Page: 232 More Ways to Say Yes and No Page: 232 Stressed Pronouns Page: 238 The Imperative and Its Forms Page: 242 Key Vocabulary Page: 249 Reading Comprehension: Un week-end de bricolage Page: 251 12 Reflexive Pronouns with Pronominal Verbs and the Present Participle Page: 253 What Is a Pronominal Verb? Page: 253 Reflexive Verbs Page: 254 Key Vocabulary Page: 254 Pronominal Verbs in Infinitive Constructions Page: 255 Pronominal Verbs: Negative, Interrogative, and Imperative Forms Page: 257 Reflexive Verbs with Parts of the Body Page: 261 Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs Page: 262 Idiomatic Pronominal Verbs Page: 265 The Present Participle Page: 270 Key Vocabulary Page: 273 Reading Comprehension: Un accueil chaleureux? Page: 274 III: The Past and Future Tenses, the Conditional, and the Subjunctive Mood Page: 277 13 Forms and Uses of the passé composé Page: 278 What Is the passé composé? Page: 278 Formation of the passé composé with avoir Page: 278 Regular and Irregular Past Participles Page: 279 Negatives, Interrogatives, and Adverbs with the passé composé Page: 284 Key Vocabulary Page: 285 The passé composé with être Page: 288 The passé composé with Object Pronouns Page: 291 The passé composé of Pronominal Verbs Page: 292 Key Vocabulary Page: 294 Reading Comprehension: Une soirée mouvementée Page: 297 14 The imparfait, Past Narration, and More About Object Pronouns Page: 299 Summary of the passé composé Page: 299 The imparfait (Imperfect Tense) Page: 301 Key Vocabulary Page: 305 Narration: The passé composé and the imparfait Used Together Page: 306 More About Object Pronouns Page: 309 Key Vocabulary Page: 312 Reading Comprehension: Un voyage mémorable Page: 314 15 The Future Tense, the Conditional, and Indefinite Adjectives and Pronouns Page: 315 The Future Tense Page: 315 The Conditional Page: 319 The Pluperfect and the Past Conditional Page: 323 Tout and Other Indefinite Adjectives and Pronouns Page: 326 Key Vocabulary Page: 330 Reading Comprehension: Rêves d’avenir Page: 332 16 The Subjunctive Page: 334 The Subjunctive Mood Page: 334 Forms of the Present Subjunctive Page: 335 Uses of the Subjunctive Page: 339 Key Vocabulary Page: 347 Reading Comprehension: Créer des liens Page: 349 Answer Key Page: 351 Index Page: 375 A Page: 375 B Page: 375 C Page: 375 D Page: 376 E Page: 376 F Page: 376 G Page: 376 H Page: 376 I Page: 376 J Page: 377 L Page: 377 M Page: 377 N Page: 377 O Page: 378 P Page: 378 Q Page: 378 R Page: 379 S Page: 379 T Page: 379 U Page: 379 V Page: 379 W Page: 380 Y Page: 380