French B2 · Upper-intermediate
Express nuance and hypothesis with confidence: advanced subjunctive uses, the full passive, complex clauses and emphasis.
- Futur antérieur
- Conditionnel passé
- Si clauses: imaginary past (plus-que-parfait + conditionnel passé)
- Mixed conditional sentences
- Subjonctif passé
- Subjunctive after doubt, negative opinion, emotion and superlatives
- Subjunctive after conjunctions (bien que, pour que, avant que...)
- Passive voice across tenses and with modal verbs
- Relative pronouns with prepositions (lequel, auquel, duquel...)
- Present participle in formal written French
- Participle clauses (participe présent, gérondif, participe passé)
- Reported speech: questions, commands & tense sequence
- Inversion after certain adverbs and in formal style (aussi, peut-être, à peine)
- Ne explétif: recognition in formal French
- Emphatic structures (c'est... qui / que)
- Laisser and verbs of perception + infinitive
- Pronominal verbs: reciprocal & idiomatic meanings
- Adjectives that change meaning with position
- Complex quantifiers (la plupart de, la majorité de, bon nombre de, quantité de)
- Passé simple: recognition in written French
- Verbs of change (devenir, rendre + adjective, se transformer en)
- Advanced linkers (néanmoins, or, en revanche, de sorte que)