Full Description
Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal.
Key features include:
Comprehensive content, covering all the major structures of contemporary French
User-friendly organisation offering easy-to-find sections with cross-referencing and indexes of English words, French words and grammatical terms
Clear and illuminating examples help students at all stage of their degree
Useful indications of what cannot be said as well as what can
Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, new headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as enhanced cross-referencing for easier reference and expanded and more nuanced explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar.
The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.
This Grammar is accompanied by the Practising French Grammar: A Workbook which features related exercises and activities and a companion website offering additional resources at www.routledge.com/cw/hawkins.
Contents
Practising French Grammar: Guide for the user 1 Nouns 2 Determiners 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns 4 Adjectives 5 Adverbs 6 Numbers 7 Verb forms 8 Verb constructions 9 Impersonal verbs 10 Tense 11 The subjunctive, modal verbs and exclamatives 12 Infinitives 13 Prepositions 14 Questions Answers to the exercises, Glossary of grammatical terms. French Grammar and Usage: Contents Guide for the user, Glossary of key grammatical terms, Acknowledgements, 1 Nouns 2 Determiners 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns 4 Adjectives 5 Adverbs 6 Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers 7 Verb forms 8 Verb constructions 9 Verb and participle agreement 10 Tense 11 The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives 12 The infinitive 13 Prepositions 14 Question formation 15 Relative clauses 16 Negation 17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions.
