C1 French Grammar Lessons

• 1 - Advanced Tenses Review

  Refine your understanding of advanced French tenses like the Subjunctive, Conditional and Plus-que-parfait. Make accurate, controlled use of these tenses in complex sentences.

• 2 - Indirect Discourse

  Master the use of Indirect Discourse to report someone else's statements or thoughts in a polished manner. Distinguish between different levels of certainty and different sources of information.

• 3 - Passive Voice Enhancement

  Refine your command of the Passive Voice. Learn to use it confidently in complex sentences and in a variety of contexts, from formal written expression to spontaneous conversation.

• 4 - Subordinate Clauses: Inversion and Conjunctions

  Get comfortable with complex subordinate clauses using inversion and conjunctions. Increase your ability to construct articulate and nuanced sentences.

• 5 - Past Historic Tense

  Revisit the Past Historic Tense used in literary and formal writings. Understand its place among other tenses and its use in narrating past events.

• 6 - Causal Relationships and Correlation

  Understand how to express causal relationships and correlation using French grammar. Use conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositions to relate actions in a logical manner.

• 7 - Impersonal Constructions

  Upgrade your skill in using impersonal constructions to discuss general truths, weather, expressions of necessity, and more. Explore the many contexts in which they can be used.

• 8 - Negation & Partial Negation

  Gain a deep understanding of negation in French, including common negation phrases as well as partial (a.k.a. litotes) and double negation.

• 9 - Hypothesis and Supposition

  Use French grammar to express hypotheses, suppositions, and conjectures. Apply this skill to create sophisticated discussions and debates.

• 10 - Subject-Verb Agreement

  Revise the rules of subject-verb agreement in French. Practice the complexity of these rules in formal contexts, focusing on tricky areas like collective nouns.

• 11 - Rhythmic Patterns in Complex Sentences

  Develop an understanding of how to create rhythm in your French sentences using punctuation and conjunctions, enhancing clarity in complex sentence constructions.