S'avouer vaincu*

My French course finishes on Friday and the grammar has been hellish.  I don't think I'm any further forward than I was four weeks ago (whimpering noise).  Here are some extracts from my on-line course which show why I have found it so difficult.

My woeful lack of English grammar knowledge hasn't helped.  I struggle with the notion of verbal auxiliaries and indefinite determiners, transitive and intransitive verbs, and what are indefinite and partitive articles with nouns?  It hasn't been any easier in the classroom, but my teacher Stephen [a Francophone from Quebec] has been patient!!  Oh well, my comprehension is good, and my vocab is improving, I just hope I'm not making too many mistakes with the dialogue ...

*To admit defeat !!