Annie Heminway - Practice Makes Perfect

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The idea of a book containing all knowledge is probably as old as literacy. In one of his brilliant short fiction collections, The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges describes the paradox of infinity contained between the covers of a book. As every student of French knows, there are always lacunae to filllexical, syntactic, orthographic, and so on. Despite any progress, the learner feels not only overwhelmed, but also stuck in quicksand, unable to reach solid ground. However, a solid foundation exists, and its title is Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One.

This book provides a map of the French languagea cartographic representation, as it wereof the Empire of the French language, encompassing seven provinces. What makes this map self-sufficient is the fact that it contains numerous clues and indications to guide the wanderer through lesser-known, or even unmapped, labyrinths. Distilling the best content from seven Practice Makes Perfect titles, this book features hand-picked selections from the following: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar may not include every grammatical rule conceivable to man or woman; nevertheless, it provides a general idea of French grammar, which you can use as a compass. Practice Makes Perfect: French Nouns and Their Genders Up Close entertains the quizzical world of French nouns, where words sometimes have two genders or even seem undecided. In this region, you will learn how to detect the correct gender of nouns on the basis of their context. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builder, youll assume the role of an architect, metaphorically speaking, of course. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builder, youll assume the role of an architect, metaphorically speaking, of course.

Nevertheless, you will learn, just as architects do, that a clear conception must precede the work of a building a structure. In this section, as in the others, engaging exercises and examples drawn from real life lead to a mastery of syntactic forms. It has been said that French prepositions are the Achilles heel of highly proficient French students. Indeed, a wrong preposition can totally demolish an elegant French speakers reputation. However, Practice Makes Perfect: French Pronouns and Prepositions provides a plethora of exercises, based on written French and everyday daily discourse, which will develop an ability to pick the right preposition and to grasp the preposition-pronoun synergy in French. In the breathtaking province of Practice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses, the student learns to perceive time, particularly the past, in a new way.

Grammar manuals may describe a tense, but a visit to this province teaches us the inimitable art of modulating tenses, from pass compos to pass simple to imparfait naturally and seamlessly as the narrative unfolds, just as a master of French prose would. Finally, Practice Makes Perfect: French Problem Solver