Full Description
French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as three additional revision texts.
Authentic texts from a rich variety of sources, literary and journalistic, are used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of French grammar, with each point consolidated with a wide range of written and spoken exercises. Grammar is presented not as an end in itself, but as a tool essential to enjoying French, understanding native speakers, and communicating effectively with them.
Literary texts and poems are taken from renowned French and Francophone authors such as Albert Camus, Émile Zola, Leïla Slimani, André Malraux, Amélie Nothomb, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Stendhal, Jacques Prévert, and Maryse Condé. News sources include Libération, Le Point, Marianne, and Le Monde Diplomatique, in addition to articles from regional papers such as Ouest-France and La Voix du Nord. Lifestyle articles are included from magazines such as Elle.
French Grammar in Context is aimed at intermediate and advanced students and is ideal for both independent and class-based study.
Contents
1. The present tense
2. The passé composé
3. The imperfect
4. The pluperfect
5. The past historic and past anterior
6. The future and future perfect
7. The conditional (present and past)
8. The negative
9. Interrogatives
10. Personal pronouns
11. Relative pronouns
12. Nouns
13. Articles and quantifiers
14. Demonstratives
15. Possessives
16. Adjectives
17. Adverbs and adverbial phrases
18. Comparatives and superlatives
19. The imperative
20. Pronominal verbs
21. The passive
22. The infinitive and present participle
23. Verbs with à and de
24. Devoir, pouvoir, vouloir, savoir
25. Impersonal verbs
26. The subjunctive (present and perfect)
27. The subjunctive (imperfect and pluperfect)
28. Prepositions
29. Conjunctions
30. Word order
31. Registers of language
32. Regional varieties of French
