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French Grammar Explained: Past Tenses, Pronouns and the Subjunctive

French Grammar Explained: Past Tenses, Pronouns and the Subjunctive

Can talk in French but keep making the same mistakes? Get past tenses, agreement, pronouns, si clauses and the subjunctive right. 55 written lessons plus 11 practice downloads.

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Last updated at Tue Oct 2026
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Total lectures 66
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Short description Can talk in French but keep making the same mistakes? Get past tenses, agreement, pronouns, si clauses and the subjunctive right. 55 written lessons plus 11 practice downloads.
Outcomes
  • Get gender, articles and the partitive right, including de after negatives and quantities
  • Make adjectives agree and put them in the right place, including the BANGS adjectives
  • Form the present tense of regular and irregular verbs, and use reflexive verbs in every tense
  • Choose avoir or être in the passé composé and make the past participle agree, including with a preceding direct object
  • Choose between the imparfait and the passé composé in stories, and use the plus-que-parfait
  • Use the futur proche, the futur simple and the conditionnel, and build all three kinds of si clause
  • Use direct and indirect object pronouns, y and en, and stressed pronouns, in the right order and place
  • Use qui, que, dont, où and the lequel forms, and handle negatives and the three ways to ask a question
  • Form the subjunctive, know when it's needed and when it isn't, and avoid it with an infinitive
  • Use the right prepositions with places and verbs, make comparisons, avoid the common false friends and choose the right register
  • Check and rewrite a longer piece of your own French with a reliable eight-step method
Requirements
  • Some French already: you can hold a simple conversation, roughly A2 to B1
  • A wish to be more accurate, in speech and in writing
  • A notebook for your error notes, and a PDF reader for the practice packs

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