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The easy-to-use reference book gives you:
The most common French verbs, alphabetically arranged, one verb per page, conjugated in all the tenses
Common idioms and example sentences demonstrating verb usage
Verbs conjugated with avoir or etre to form a compound tense
Over 2,600 additional verbs conjugated like model verbs among the 501
Index of common irregular French verb forms identified by their infinite
List of Essential 55 Verbs with usage examples and expressions related to the verbs
A summary of sequence of verb tenses...and much more

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Sentence completion exercises, Dialogue exercises, Word completion exercises, Word seek exercises, Matching with English, Correct answers given for all exercises

About the Author
Dr. Christopher Kendris has worked as interpreter and translator of French for the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Paris. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he held a New York State Scholarship, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he held a Teaching Assistantship and Tutorial Fellowship during four years. He also earned two diplomas with Mention tres Honorable at the Universite de Paris (en Sorbonne), Faculte des Lettres, Ecole Superieure de Preparation et de Perfectionnement des Professeurs de Francais a I'Etranger, and at the Institute de Phonetique, Paris. In 1986 he was one of 95 teachers in the United States awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Teacher of Foreign Languages in American High Schools. He has taught French at the College of the University of Chicago as visiting summer lecturer, at Colby College, Duke University, Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey, and the State University of New York at Albany. He was Chairman of the Department of foreign Languages and Supervisor of 16 foreign language teachers on the secondary level at Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale, New York, where he was also a teacher of all levels of French and Spanish, and prepared students for the New York State French and Spanish Regents, SAT exams, and AP tests. Dr. Kendris is the author of 22 school and college books, workbooks, and other language guides of French and Spanish. He is listed in Contemporary Authors and the Directory of American Scholars.

Dr. Theodore Kendris earned his B. A. Degree in Modern Languages at Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he received the Thomas j. Judson Memorial Award for modern language study. He went on to earn his M.A. degree in French Language and Literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he held a Teaching Assistantship. He earned his Ph.D. degree in French Literature at Universite Laval in Quebec City, where he studied the Middle Ages and Renaissance. While at Universite Laval he taught French writing skills as a charge de cours in the French as a Second Language program and, in 1997, he was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Foundation de l'Universite' Laval. He has also taught in the Department of English and Foreign Language at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, as well as the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University.

Table of Contents

• About the authors
• Preface to the sixth edition
• Introductions
• Present and past participles in French–Formation
• Derivation of Tenses: Verbs conjugated with avoir and etre
• Verbs conjugated with avoir or etre to form a compound tense
• Principal parts of some important verbs (Les Temps primitifs)
• Sample English verb conjugation
• A summary of French verb tenses and moods
• Formation of the tenses
• A summary of sequence of verb tenses–Si clauses
• The subjunctive
• Orthographically changing verb (Spelling changes)
• Definitions of basic grammatical terms with examples
• Verb drills and tests
• Answers to verb tests with explanations
• Essential 55 verb list
• Subject pronouns
• Abbreviations
• Alphabetical listing of 501 French verbs fully conjugated in all tenses and moods
• Appendixes
• Defective and impersonal verbs
• Guide to French pronunciations
• Verbs used in weather expressions
• Verbs with prepositions
• Index of common irregular French verb forms
• English-French verb index
• Index of 2,600 additional verbs keyed to listing of 501 French verbs