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French Grammar and Usage, 2Ed
Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell

Paperback
RRP: £21.99
ISBN: 9780340760758
ISBN-10: 0340760753

Published: 01/04/2001
Extent: 448 pages

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Summary:
'French Grammar and Usage' has rapidly established itself as the most up-to-date grammar on the market. It provides English speaking students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to French grammar. Praised for its clear lay-out and lucid explanations, this essential learning tool has now been revised in response to extensive feedback from teachers using the first edition. The improvements of the second edition include a through reworking of the index and cross-referencing, minor structural reorganisation of material, and updated examples.

  • Improved index and cross-referencing - a key feature for a reference book of this nature
  • Minor reorganisation of material, based on detailed suggestions from teachers
  • Updated examples

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.

Readership:
Undergraduate students of French. A-level students of French.

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

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