ABSTRACT

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage provides students and teachers with a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear and concise 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. This combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage will prove invaluable to students and teachers of French from intermediate through to advanced level. Praised for its clear lay-out and lucid explanations, the new edition includes updated examples, enhanced cross-referencing and expanded explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar.

chapter 1|25 pages

Nouns

chapter 2|19 pages

Determiners

chapter 3|40 pages

Personal and impersonal pronouns

chapter 4|23 pages

Adjectives

chapter 5|28 pages

Adverbs

chapter 7|40 pages

Verb forms

chapter 8|24 pages

Verb constructions

chapter 9|15 pages

Verb and participle agreement

chapter 10|20 pages

Tense

chapter 12|29 pages

The infi nitive

chapter 13|33 pages

Prepositions

chapter 14|17 pages

Question formation

chapter 15|16 pages

Relative clauses

chapter 16|17 pages

Negation

chapter 17|19 pages

Conjunctions and other linking constructions