Verb charts (and memories)...
Apr. 10th, 2007 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAmong items that I've unearthed in my once-a-decade (it seems) scan of my "page-protector file" is a stapled set of "verb charts" from high school.
I know my mom was a great fan of these verb charts, which essentially provide the same information as you'll find in those books that provide insight into hundreds of foreign language verbs, except that you've written them all out. Naturally, at the time, this was considered an unforgivable imposition on my valuable time, but as I got older, I found that writing things out helped me remember them.
The format of these charts is 8-1/2 by 11, landscape orientation. The page is divided into five colums.
At the top of the left-most column one writes the future conjugation of the verb; below that, the conditional tense.
In the second column, the top is devoted to the past imperfect, with the subjunctive below that. The middle column is very busy, featuring (from top to bottom) the passé composé, the pluperfect tense ("I had..."), the future anterior ("I will have..."), the past conditional ("I would have..."), the past subjective ("that I may have..."), and the pluperfect subjunctive ("that I might have...").
The fourth column is fairly simply: the present tense at the top and below that, the three forms of the imperative.
The last column is devoted to the past definite (which in French is mostly a literary tense that's fallen out of use) and the imperfect subjunctive.
It actually beats using those books, come to think of it. (And I can't get over how... irregular my penmanship was at the time.)
Cheers...
I know my mom was a great fan of these verb charts, which essentially provide the same information as you'll find in those books that provide insight into hundreds of foreign language verbs, except that you've written them all out. Naturally, at the time, this was considered an unforgivable imposition on my valuable time, but as I got older, I found that writing things out helped me remember them.
The format of these charts is 8-1/2 by 11, landscape orientation. The page is divided into five colums.
At the top of the left-most column one writes the future conjugation of the verb; below that, the conditional tense.
In the second column, the top is devoted to the past imperfect, with the subjunctive below that. The middle column is very busy, featuring (from top to bottom) the passé composé, the pluperfect tense ("I had..."), the future anterior ("I will have..."), the past conditional ("I would have..."), the past subjective ("that I may have..."), and the pluperfect subjunctive ("that I might have...").
The fourth column is fairly simply: the present tense at the top and below that, the three forms of the imperative.
The last column is devoted to the past definite (which in French is mostly a literary tense that's fallen out of use) and the imperfect subjunctive.
It actually beats using those books, come to think of it. (And I can't get over how... irregular my penmanship was at the time.)
Cheers...
