Schaum's Outline of French Grammar delivers a comprehensive and efficient review of French grammar, with exercises, quick drills, and helpful verb charts. The fifth edition includes the latest usages and carefully explains challenging grammatical topics.
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Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's Outlines
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
Chapters include: Nouns and Articles * Adjectives and Adverbs * Prepositions * Numbers, Dates, and Time * Verbs * Interrogative Words and Constructions * Negative Words and Constructions * Pronouns * Special Meanings of Certain Verbs
Millions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples as well as practice exercises to test your skills.
Use Schaum's Outlines to:
- Brush up before tests
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- Study quickly and more effectively
- Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
This Schaum's Outline gives you:
- More than 4,000 test items so you can practice your grammar skills
- Easy-to-use verb charts and grammatical index
- The latest developments in the grammar of spoken and written contemporary French
Chapters include: Nouns and Articles * Adjectives and Adverbs * Prepositions * Numbers, Dates, and Time * Verbs * Interrogative Words and Constructions * Negative Words and Constructions * Pronouns * Special Meanings of Certain Verbs
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Mary E. Crocker is a French editor and consultant.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Doc Barbara
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The most thorough of all the teaching grammars that I have used. It works through every aspect of every verb, pronoun etc with literally hundreds of exercises. The chapter on verbs has 343 exercises!!! No excuse here for not knowing your agreement of past particples. Then answers ARE in the back. One aspect I found helpful is that there are mixed exercises at the end of each chapter which test what you have learned in an authentic way. It is quite easy to get things right on one small topic taken at one time but less so with mixed examples. The explanations go into the more obscure points of usage and the exercises draw out small oddities which might go unobserved. Recommended highly.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By montalivet
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Please disregard the glowing references above. These refer to the paperback edition of this book, which is indeed a comprehensive and detailed treatment of French grammar and is well worthy of an excellent recommendation.
I am reviewing the Kindle edition and I wish I could give it zero stars but that option is not available. On my first read through I have found literally hundreds of transcription errors and have probably missed many more. Accented words in original are especially fraught with errors. For example francçais for français, tàt for tôt, arriveé for arriveé, also anything ending in an e acute (é)tends to concatenate with the following word rendering a giberrish string. Once a transcription error is initiated it is perpetuated throughout the book.
The book is a bizarre mixture of plain text and text captured as poor quality graphic images. The image text is very small in relation to the plain text and does not automatically scale when the text is scaled, although the images can be scaled manually. As mentioned in the reviews above there are hundreds of excellent exercises with answers provided. The problem is that the answers are not hyperlinked from the exercises themselves making finding the anwers at the end of the book an onerous process.
The transcribers of this book should hang their heads in shame for such sloppy work as should Amazon for offering it for sale.
If Amazon read these reviews and I doubt if they do, then they should withdraw it from sale until corrections are made. I am seriously considering taking this product to Trading Standards (UK) for prosecution under the Sale of Goods Act (1979) as being "not of mechantable quality".
Depending on your proficiency with French this download could be very confusing, if not downright damaging.
If you would like to buy this excellent book then buy the paperback and steer clear of this toxic Kindle download.
I am reviewing the Kindle edition and I wish I could give it zero stars but that option is not available. On my first read through I have found literally hundreds of transcription errors and have probably missed many more. Accented words in original are especially fraught with errors. For example francçais for français, tàt for tôt, arriveé for arriveé, also anything ending in an e acute (é)tends to concatenate with the following word rendering a giberrish string. Once a transcription error is initiated it is perpetuated throughout the book.
The book is a bizarre mixture of plain text and text captured as poor quality graphic images. The image text is very small in relation to the plain text and does not automatically scale when the text is scaled, although the images can be scaled manually. As mentioned in the reviews above there are hundreds of excellent exercises with answers provided. The problem is that the answers are not hyperlinked from the exercises themselves making finding the anwers at the end of the book an onerous process.
The transcribers of this book should hang their heads in shame for such sloppy work as should Amazon for offering it for sale.
If Amazon read these reviews and I doubt if they do, then they should withdraw it from sale until corrections are made. I am seriously considering taking this product to Trading Standards (UK) for prosecution under the Sale of Goods Act (1979) as being "not of mechantable quality".
Depending on your proficiency with French this download could be very confusing, if not downright damaging.
If you would like to buy this excellent book then buy the paperback and steer clear of this toxic Kindle download.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Doh
Format:Paperback
Inital thoughts on this book were that it seemed rather stark and clinical in it's delivery on the concepts of French grammar. There are no pretty pictures or interesting facts to entertain. However, I found it to be invaluable when it came to practicing the various concepts of the French language. There are just hundreds of practice exercises which is exactly what you need when learning a new language.
If you have already started a French course using either a book/CD or have enrolled on an evening course then this offers a vast array of additional practice exercises to re-enforce what you have learnt. I wouldn't recommend this book on it's own to learn French as you would soon lose interest but if used in conjunction with a French course it is highly recommended.
If you have already started a French course using either a book/CD or have enrolled on an evening course then this offers a vast array of additional practice exercises to re-enforce what you have learnt. I wouldn't recommend this book on it's own to learn French as you would soon lose interest but if used in conjunction with a French course it is highly recommended.
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This grammar is awesome however it seems you are writing on toilet paper. Sheets are too thin. Thats why I can only give four stars.
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the amount of questions is good, but it would be better if there was colour and not so many difficult words at the start
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