Phase 1 + Phase 2 — advanced quiz, 200 questions

Rule: a French noun almost never stands bare. Something goes in front of it, and that little word has to match the noun in gender and number — and sometimes change shape because of what comes before it.

Rule: take the infinitive, remove the ending, add the ending that matches the subject. Three regular families cover most verbs; the high-frequency irregulars have to be known by heart.

Rule: negation is a pair of words that wraps the conjugated verb. A question can be asked three ways, and the three are not equally formal.

Rule: which little word you use before a place depends on the kind of place it is — and two of them squeeze together with le and les whether you like it or not.

Rule: when two verbs meet, only the first one conjugates. The second stays in the infinitive — and some verbs demand a little word before that infinitive.

Rule: put plus, moins or aussi in front of the describing word and que after it. Two words refuse this pattern and have their own comparative form.

Rule: a helper verb in the present plus a participle. Almost every verb takes avoir; sixteen movement verbs and every reflexive verb take être — and with être the participle agrees with the subject.

Rule: take the nous form of the present, drop -ons, add the imparfait endings. It describes what things were like and what used to happen — not one finished event.