French Grammar and Usage, Third Edition

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

• CEFR Categorisation: C1 - C2

Table of Contents:
Guide for the user
Glossary of key grammatical terms
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

About the Author(s):
Roger Hawkins is Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Richard Towell is Emeritus 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