French Grammar Course

Lesson 1 • Vowel Sounds in French

Trains the six core French vowel qualities absent in English. Accurate vowels underpin intelligible speech throughout the course.

Lesson 2 • Rhythm, Stress, and Intonation

Explains syllable-timed rhythm and phrase-final stress unique to French. Students apply these patterns to produce natural-sounding sentences.

Lesson 3 • The French Alphabet and Accents

Covers all 26 letters plus five accent marks and their effect on pronunciation. Establishes the orthographic foundation needed for every subsequent chapter.

Lesson 1 • Grammatical Gender of Nouns

Introduces masculine and feminine noun classes and common gender markers. Gender agreement drives adjective and article choice in all later chapters.

Lesson 2 • Partitive Articles

Explains du, de la, de l' for uncountable quantities. Partitive use is essential for food, abstract concepts, and everyday conversation.

Lesson 3 • Singular and Plural Forms

Covers standard and irregular plural formations for nouns. Plural agreement cascades into verb conjugation and adjective chapters.

Lesson 1 • Comparative and Superlative Forms

Builds comparison structures using plus, moins, aussi, and le plus. Students construct ranked and equal comparisons accurately.

Lesson 2 • Adjective Gender Agreement

Covers regular and irregular feminine adjective forms. Agreement with nouns is the core grammatical operation of this chapter.

Lesson 3 • Demonstrative and Possessive Adjectives

Introduces ce, cet, cette, ces and the full possessive adjective paradigm. These forms are required for reference and ownership in all contexts.

Lesson 4 • Adjective Placement Rules

Explains the BAGS adjective group placed before nouns and all others placed after. Placement affects both meaning and register.

Lesson 1 • Regular -ir and -re Verb Conjugation

Covers the second and third conjugation classes with their distinct endings. Students distinguish the three classes by pattern recognition.

Lesson 2 • Interrogative Structures in the Present

Teaches three question-formation methods: intonation, est-ce que, and inversion. Students select the appropriate register for each context.

Lesson 3 • Regular -er Verb Conjugation

Introduces the most common verb class and its six-form paradigm. Mastery here provides the template for all subsequent conjugation chapters.

Lesson 1 • Subject and Stressed Pronouns

Reviews subject pronouns and introduces disjunctive stressed forms. Stressed pronouns are required after prepositions and in emphasis structures.

Lesson 2 • Demonstrative Pronouns

Covers celui, celle, ceux, celles and their use with -ci/-là and relative clauses. Students avoid repetition by substituting noun phrases precisely.

Lesson 3 • Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns

Covers me, te, le, la, les and me, te, lui, leur with their placement rules. Object pronoun order is critical for grammatical sentences.

Lesson 4 • The Pronouns Y and En

Explains y replacing à + place/thing and en replacing de + noun. These pronouns are among the most misused by learners.

Lesson 1 • Forming the Passé Composé

Teaches avoir and être auxiliary selection and past participle formation. Auxiliary choice and agreement are the two most common error sources.

Lesson 2 • Passé Composé vs. Imparfait Contrast

Explains the aspectual distinction: completed events vs. background/habitual states. This contrast is the central challenge of French past narration.

Lesson 3 • Forming the Imparfait

Covers the regular nous-stem formation and irregular être. The imparfait expresses background states, habits, and ongoing past actions.

Lesson 4 • Passé Composé with Reflexive Verbs

Extends être-auxiliary rules to reflexive verbs and their agreement patterns. Agreement depends on the grammatical role of the reflexive pronoun.

Lesson 1 • Present Subjunctive Formation

Derives the subjunctive stem from the ils present form and adds subjunctive endings. Formation accuracy is prerequisite to correct usage.

Lesson 2 • Future Tense Formation and Use

Covers the simple future built on the infinitive stem and its irregular forms. Students distinguish futur simple from futur proche by context.

Lesson 3 • Conditional Tense Formation and Use

Builds the conditional using the future stem plus imparfait endings. The conditional expresses politeness, hypotheses, and reported speech.

Lesson 4 • Subjunctive Triggers and Usage

Catalogues the four trigger categories: volition, emotion, doubt, and impersonal expressions. Students identify triggers and apply the subjunctive reliably.

Lesson 1 • Subordinate Clauses and Conjunctions

Covers temporal, causal, concessive, and purpose conjunctions with their mood requirements. Correct mood after conjunctions is the key competency.

Lesson 2 • Reported Speech and Sequence of Tenses

Covers tense backshifting and pronoun changes in indirect speech. Accurate reported speech is essential for academic and professional writing.

Lesson 3 • Discourse Connectors and Text Cohesion

Introduces logical connectors for addition, contrast, cause, and consequence. Students organise multi-paragraph texts with clear logical flow.

Lesson 4 • Emphatic Structures and Cleft Sentences

Teaches c'est...qui/que cleft sentences and dislocation for emphasis. These structures are central to natural French spoken and written style.