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French Grammar and Usage (English and French Edition)
'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.
951 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 2, 1996
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Roger Hawkins
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Contents
Guide for the user - ix
Glossary of key grammatical terms - xii
Acknowledgements - xvii
Acknowledgements for the second edition - xviii
Acknowledgements for the third edition - xix
1 Nouns - 1
1.1 Types of noun - 1
1.2 Gender - 5
1.3 Number - 19
2 Determiners
2.1 Articles -26
2.2 Typical uses of the definite article - 26
2.3 Typical uses of the indefinite article - 28
2.4 The partitive article: du, de l’, de la, des - 34
2.5 Use of indefinite and partitive articles after the negative forms ne... pas,ne...jamais, ne...plus, ne...guère - 38
2.6 Omission of the article - 39
2.7 Demonstrative determiners - 44
2.8 Possessive determiners - 44
3 Personal and impersonal pronouns - 45
3.1 Subject pronouns - 45
3.2 Object pronouns - 59
3.3 Stressed pronouns - 78
3.4 Demonstrative pronouns - 83
3.5 Possessive pronouns - 84
4 Adjectives - 85
4.1 Adjectives modifying the noun -85
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
4.13
4.14 Absolute use of the superlative -106
5 Adverbs - 108
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7 Location of adverbs - 132
6 Numbers,
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9 Quantifiers - 154
7 Verb forms - 157
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6 Verb paradigms - 166
8 Verb constructions - 198
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9 Verbs which take noun + adjective or noun + noun compliments - 221
9 Verb and participle agreement - 222
9.1
9.2.
9.3
9.4 Agreement of the past participle of pronominal verbs in compound tenses - 234
10 Tense - 237
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8 Tense with 'si' - 256
11 The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives - 257
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5 Imperatives - 285
12 The infinitive - 288
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
12.6
12.7
12.8
12.9
12.10
12.11 Quick-reference index to verbs taking infinitive compliments - 310
13 Prepositions - 317
13.1
13.2-13.58
13.59 French translations for common English prepositions - 343
14 Question formation - 350
14.1
14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5
14.6
14.7 Indirect questions - 364
15 Relative clauses - 367
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10
15.11 Indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses - 380
16 Negation - 383
16.1
16.2
16.3
16.4
16.5
16.6
16.7
16.8
16.9
16.10
16.11
16.12
16.13
16.14
16.15
16.16 'ne' used alone - 398
17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions - 400
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
17.5
17.6
17.7
17.8
17.9 Present participles and gerunds - 415
Appendix - 419
Bibliography - 422
Index - 423
Contents
Guide for the user - ix
Glossary of key grammatical terms - xii
Acknowledgements - xvii
Acknowledgements for the second edition - xviii
Acknowledgements for the third edition - xix
1 Nouns - 1
1.1 Types of noun - 1
1.2 Gender - 5
1.3 Number - 19
2 Determiners
2.1 Articles -26
2.2 Typical uses of the definite article - 26
2.3 Typical uses of the indefinite article - 28
2.4 The partitive article: du, de l’, de la, des - 34
2.5 Use of indefinite and partitive articles after the negative forms ne... pas,ne...jamais, ne...plus, ne...guère - 38
2.6 Omission of the article - 39
2.7 Demonstrative determiners - 44
2.8 Possessive determiners - 44
3 Personal and impersonal pronouns - 45
3.1 Subject pronouns - 45
3.2 Object pronouns - 59
3.3 Stressed pronouns - 78
3.4 Demonstrative pronouns - 83
3.5 Possessive pronouns - 84
4 Adjectives - 85
4.1 Adjectives modifying the noun -85
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
4.13
4.14 Absolute use of the superlative -106
5 Adverbs - 108
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7 Location of adverbs - 132
6 Numbers,
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9 Quantifiers - 154
7 Verb forms - 157
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6 Verb paradigms - 166
8 Verb constructions - 198
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9 Verbs which take noun + adjective or noun + noun compliments - 221
9 Verb and participle agreement - 222
9.1
9.2.
9.3
9.4 Agreement of the past participle of pronominal verbs in compound tenses - 234
10 Tense - 237
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8 Tense with 'si' - 256
11 The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives - 257
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5 Imperatives - 285
12 The infinitive - 288
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
12.6
12.7
12.8
12.9
12.10
12.11 Quick-reference index to verbs taking infinitive compliments - 310
13 Prepositions - 317
13.1
13.2-13.58
13.59 French translations for common English prepositions - 343
14 Question formation - 350
14.1
14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5
14.6
14.7 Indirect questions - 364
15 Relative clauses - 367
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10
15.11 Indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses - 380
16 Negation - 383
16.1
16.2
16.3
16.4
16.5
16.6
16.7
16.8
16.9
16.10
16.11
16.12
16.13
16.14
16.15
16.16 'ne' used alone - 398
17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions - 400
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
17.5
17.6
17.7
17.8
17.9 Present participles and gerunds - 415
Appendix - 419
Bibliography - 422
Index - 423
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