French Grammar Lessons

Lessons and quizzes for every French grammar point, part of speech, and verb form you can think of

French Grammar Glossary
A quick-reference guide to French grammar terms, including verb tenses/moods/voices, kinds of pronouns, and much more.

French Parts of Speech
Learning French is hard, and it's even harder if you don't understand the basics of grammar in your own language. If your mind boggles when people start talking about nouns, adjectives, and other parts of speech, this lesson is for you.

Adjectives Everything you need to know about French adjectives: meaning, usage, placement, and types.	Adverbs Lessons on the meaning, usage, placement, formation, and different types of French adverbs.
Articles Lesson with detailed explanations, tips, and comparisons of French definite, indefinite, and partitive articles.	Conjunctions Learn about both kinds of French conjunctions and how to use them, then memorize the most common ones.
Nouns Introduction to French nouns - everything you need to know.	Prepositions Learn everything there is to know about French prepositions.
Pronouns There are many different kinds of French pronouns; master them here.	French Verbs Learn about French verbs: conjugations, tenses, moods, timeline, uses, and more.

  
More French Grammar

Agreement A summary of the different types of agreement with links to detailed lessons on each grammatical point.	C'est vs Il est These French expressions are both used in impersonal expressions as well as for general comments.
Contractions Although contractions in English are optional, in French they are required, so it is important to learn when and how to make contractions.	Determiners These introduce and simultaneously modify nouns, and are much more common in French than in English.
Direct and Indirect Speech Learn about two ways to report what another person said.	Exclamations Exclamations are words or phrases that express a desire, an order, or a strong emotion.
Gender What is gender? How is it used?	Grammar Terms Learn the essential grammatical terms.
Il y a Il y a (there is/are) is one of the most important expressions in the French language.	Impersonal French Grammatically speaking, impersonal refers to words or structures which are invariable.
Indefinites Lessons on every kind of indefiniteness, from indefinite adjectives to the indefinite subject pronoun.	Informal French Learn about informal French negation, pronoun usage, and questions.
Negation There are different kinds of negative words - learn them all here.	Number/Plurals What is grammatical number? When does it matter?
Possession A summary of each possessive construction with links to more detailed information.	Presentatives French presentatives are terms which introduce something at the same time that they emphasize it.
Questions Did you know that there are four different structures to use when asking questions in French?	Quizzes Assorted French grammar quizzes.
Règles d'écriture Just for fun - grammar rules whose descriptions break the very rule they are describing (en français).	French Sentences Learn about French sentences, including sentence parts and the four different types of sentences.
Word Order Dual-verb constructions, object and adverbial pronouns, inversion, adverbs, negative structures.... Learn how to string them all together.	Writing and Mechanics When writing in French, there are some special grammar rules and conventions to watch out for.

 

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