Practice Makes Perfect: French Pronouns and Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect) | 
| Author: Annie Heminway
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 212
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0071453911
Dewey Decimal Number: 448.2421
EAN: 9780071453912
ASIN: 0071453911
Publication Date: August 7, 2006
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Product Description
Become a pro using French pronouns and prepositions This volume in the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series treats French pronouns and prepositions systematically in a workbook/text format. Containing concise, user-friendly explanations with many practice exercises, Practice Makes Perfect: French Pronouns and Prepositions helps you develop your knowledge of how and why pronouns and prepositions are used, and, more important, how to incorporate them into everyday conversations.
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Useful Though Not Perfect October 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Working through this book brings back memories of junior high school when I first struggled with many of the concepts covered here. I wish that resources like this had been available back then -- my life would have been easier.
I only have a couple of qualms about this volume, which is why I assigned only four stars.
First, it has errors that should have been caught before publication, such as this example sentence on page 11:
"Je ne n'ai pas ceux dont tu as besoin."
A native French proofreader would instantly have spotted the superfluous "ne" above.
Second, some of the examples, while technically correct, sound awkward and not at all like any actual French person would speak or write. Thus, from page 76:
"Les lui avons-nous communiques?"
But the pronoun information is generally helpful, and I understand that it's necessary to contrive examples to illustrate various rules.
The second part of the book, addressing prepositions, is competent, and acknowledges with refreshing candor that much of the material simply must be memorized -- there is no particular logic, for instance, to why certain verbs normally are followed by "a" whereas others are followed by "de" and still others by no preposition at all.
There are a number of exercises throughout with answer keys in the back.
All in all, a fairly inexpensive tool that offers useful help with two of the more significant betes noires of students of French.
filling in the spaces June 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've found this book very useful. I'm fluent in both English and Spanish so I understand verb conjugation and have a fairly broad vocab. Yet I felt like a three year old grasping to make sentences. This book helps fill in the spaces, making you sound more fluent and boosting confidence. The workbook style is effective in helping you to remember. I would definitely recommend to anyone willing to put in the effort needed to learn french. It's well worth it.
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