Laura K. Lawless 
French Workbook For Dummies [PDF ebook] 

Introduction 1
Part 1: The Building Blocks of French 5
Chapter 1: Getting to Know You 7
Chapter 2: Understanding Parts of Speech and Bilingual Dictionaries 23
Chapter 3: Figuring Out Nouns and Articles 41
Chapter 4: Showing Up and Owning Up: Demonstratives and Possessives 59
Chapter 5: The 4-1-1 on Numbers, Dates, and Time 75
Part 2: The Here and Now: Writing in the Present 95
Chapter 6: Right Here, Right Now: The Present Tense 97
Chapter 7: Sorting Out Pronominal Verbs: Idioms, Oneself, and Each Other 123
Chapter 8: Asking and Answering Questions 139
Chapter 9: Just Say No: The Negative 157
Chapter 10: ‘To Be’ or ‘Being’ Is the Question: Infinitives and Present Participles 171
Part 3: Writing with Panache: Dressing Up Your Sentences 187
Chapter 11: Describing and Comparing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 189
Chapter 12: An Ode to Prepositions 217
Chapter 13: Getting a Hold on Pronouns 233
Part 4: Just Do It, and Now You’ve Done It: Commands and Past Tenses 249
Chapter 14: I Command You: The Imperative 251
Chapter 15: It’s All in the Past: Passé Composé 265
Chapter 16: When the Past Isn’t Perfect: The Imparfait Tense 281
Part 5: The Part of Tens 299
Chapter 17: Ten (or so) Essential French Phrases 301
Chapter 18: Ten Celebratory French Expressions 307
Part 6: Appendixes 311
Appendix A: Verb Charts 313
Appendix B: Verbs with Prepositions 323
Appendix C: English-French Dictionary 327
Appendix D: French-English Dictionary 335
Index 343

Laura K. Lawless earned a BA in International Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She has also done graduate work in French and Spanish translation, interpretation, linguistics, and literature. Laura is the creator of Lawless French.com, an online resource for students, teachers, and lovers of French.