This nicely designed book from Dover Publications consists primarily of verb tables. It is hard to get overly excited about verb tables, which simply involve listing all possible conjugations for a given verb, and then all the conjugations for another…
I’ll be blunt: this French book is a little dirty. Which is fine. Smutty stuff has a place in a French student’s library.
Especially a college-age student, but the contents of Hide This French Book<…
This small old-fashioned French book has a high grammar density. It is not a workbook; it is a concise summary of the basic principles of French grammar, populated with numerous helpful examples.
The cover promises that it is “All the…
This book by Annie Heminway contains lots of grammar drills, offering excellent opportunities for practice to people seeking to refine their skills.
I’ve used Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar twice. Right after I went through it…
This book by Véronique Mazet is full of grammar exercises, and I love grammar exercises.
I also usually love grammar explanations, but Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar wore me out. The sentences explaining grammar in this…
This book begins with the following question: “Are you ‘subjunctophobic’?”
The author herself is obviously not. “Verbs conjugated in the subjunctive make up a wonderful and captivating tribe,” writes Annie Heminway, “rich in mysteries, nuances, and conundrums, a wandering tribe…
I haven’t consistently liked McGraw-Hill’s Practice Makes Perfect books on pronouns and prepositions (which are offered for multiple languages), but I thoroughly enjoyed this one for French. The exercises were helpful, and the vocabulary used…
This is the textbook from a three-piece set (also including an exercise book and answer key) that I used in a French Institute Alliance Française course here in New York City.
Nouvelle Grammaire du Français<…
This is the exercise workbook accompanying the textbook Nouvelle Grammaire du Français, also reviewed in this directory. Please see that review for more details on both the textbook and this workbook.
Since this workbook does not…
