French Grammar and Usage, Third Edition

French Grammar and Usage, Third Edition by Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell

Summary:

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.

• Revised in response to extensive feedback from teachers
• Many new examples of language variation
• Expanded section on mood and the subjunctive
• Includes a useful glossary of grammatical terms
• New index and simplified layout make this edition even easier to navigate

French Grammar and Usage, Third Edition - Table of Contents:

• Guide for the user
• Glossary of key grammatical terms
• Nouns
• Determiners
• Personal and impersonal pronouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers
• Verb forms
• Verb constructions
• Verb and participle agreement
• Tense
• The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives
• The infinitive
• Prepositions
• Question formation
• Relative clauses
• Negation
• Conjunctions and other linking constructions.

French Grammar and Usage, Third Edition- About the Author(s):

Roger Hawkins is Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Richard Towell is Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford and a past President of the Association of French Language Studies.

Contributors:

Consultant: Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Professor of Distance Language Learning, Open University.

Readership:

Undergraduate students of French. A-level students of French, adult self-learners.

Reviews:

"...focuses on those aspects of French grammar known to cause difficulties for English-speaking learners of French. It uses an up-to-date approach with modern terminology, but takes care to ensure that all terms and ideas are clearly explained. Students and teachers alike will find that it does an excellent job." Professor R. A. Lodge, University of St. Andrews,

"This book is a major contribution to reference works on French grammar." Francophonie

"...a comprehensive and reliable grammar..." French Language Studies

"What I particularly like about this book is the fact that its explanations are rooted in current research on spoken and written French discourse. In addition, it provides students with a variety of tools that they can use to make different types of analogies and generalizations; the acquisition of such tools allows them to continue the acquisition process well beyond any course." Nadine DiVitro, Director of Romance Language Programs, University of Chicago