Philip Ejikeme - French for Success: Progressive French Grammar, Book 2 (Intermediate 1)

FRENCH
FOR
SUCCESS

PROGRESSIVE FRENCH GRAMMAR. BOOK 2 (INTERMEDIATE 1)

PHILIP EJIKEME

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/17/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-2927-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-2926-7 (e)

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I wish to profoundly thank the following authors/publishers whose works I constantly consulted in the course of the preparation of these manuals:

Je tiens exprimer mes vifs remerciements aux auteurs/diteurs suivants dont les ouvrages mont t trs utiles au cours de llaboration de ces manuels:

Maa Grgoire and Odile Thivenaz: Grammaire Progressive du Franais avec 500 exercices CLE INTERNATIONAL, 1995, Paris.

Bescherelle POCHE : Les Tableaux pour conjuguer Les rgles pour accorder Tous les verbs dusage courant HATIER, Paris, Juin 1999

LE PETIT ROBERT 1 DICTIONNAIRE ALPHABTIQUE ET ANALOGIQUE DE LA

LANGUE FRANCAISE Paris, 1989

LE GRAND Robert & Collins Dictionnaire FRANAIS-ANGLAIS /ANGLAIS FRANAIS

HarperCollins Publishers, 2007, Glasgow G64 2QT, Great Britain.

The AMERICAN HERITAGE dictionary of THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 3RD EDITION, 1992 Boston, MA 02116

I owe immense gratitude to Dr Varus SOSOE, who proofread the entire work. Thank you for your painstaking efforts.

Also to the migrant parents for whom I was occasionally invited to interpret by their childrens schools in Geneva. Most often, those parents preferred to practice their French, allowing me to intervene only when they were in search of words. Whether they were Nigerians, Americans, British or Germans, the common features of their outputs had to do with verb endings that echoed the way it is done in their respective mother tongues. These manuals were conceived with a view to eliminating those errors. The desire to find a solution to the conjugation problems was partly born out of those encounters. I thank them for the inspiration.

Finally, I am grateful to my publishers, AuthorHouse UK, for the professionalism they displayed within a very short space of time.

En is a preposition of place. It is used before countries or states or locations, which, generally, are feminine, irrespective of whether they begin with a vowel or consonant . We use en to indicate a place where we are or live in, or to which we are travelling, if feminine.

We also use en in similar circumstances for masculine countries beginning with a v owel.

En Afghanistan, en Isral, en Irak, en Iran (see the countries concerned below)

These countries are feminine. So us e en :

Use en before these countries, which are feminine: En Allemagne, en Angleterre, en Afrique, en Albanie, en Cte dIvoire, en Chine, en Colombie, en Afrique du Sud, en Belg ique.

En Allemagne, en Afrique du Sud, en Chine, en Ethiopie, en Guine, en Indonsie, en Libye, en Pologne, en Angleterre, en France, en Colombie, en Argentine, en Cte dIvoire, en Belgique.

(in/to: Germany, South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Guinea, Indonesia, Libya, Poland, England, France, Colombia, Argentina, Ivory Coast, Belgium. Below are countries and their citizens.

Masc/sin/pl Fem/sing/pl

albanais albanaise(s)