French Grammar and Usage

Auteur

Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.

Marie-Noëlle Lamy is Emeritus Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK.

Roger Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

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French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of 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.

Résumé
French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of 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.

Contenu

Guide for the user

Glossary of key grammatical terms

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements for the second edition

Acknowledgements for the third edition

Acknowledgements for the fourth edition

Acknowledgements for the fifth edition

1. Nouns

2. Determiners

3. 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. Conjugations and other linking constructions

Appendix 1: Orthographic Conventions

Appendix 2: Nouvelle Orthographe

Further Reading

Index