
French Grammar and Usage
Routledge (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 31. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
470 pages
978-1-032-44463-5 (ISBN)
Description
Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly grammar book available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French and their uses, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal.
This book's key features are as follows:
comprehensive content, covering all the major structures of contemporary French
user-friendly organisation offering easy-to-find sections with cross-referencing and indexes of English words, French words, and grammatical terms
clear and illuminating examples to help students at all stages of their degree
useful indications of what cannot be written or said as well as what can
Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, headers to include chapter number and section parts, as well as cross-referencing for easier reference, and explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar. This edition includes references to changes in French spelling now being introduced across French education and to social change towards inclusive writing.
The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate and advanced levels.
This Grammar is accompanied by Practising French Grammar: A Workbook (available to purchase separately, ISBN 978-1-032-44140-5) which features related exercises and activities. An Instructor and Student Resource site also accompanies this book and offers additional resources at https://routledgelearning.com/frenchgrammarandusage
This book's key features are as follows:
comprehensive content, covering all the major structures of contemporary French
user-friendly organisation offering easy-to-find sections with cross-referencing and indexes of English words, French words, and grammatical terms
clear and illuminating examples to help students at all stages of their degree
useful indications of what cannot be written or said as well as what can
Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, headers to include chapter number and section parts, as well as cross-referencing for easier reference, and explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar. This edition includes references to changes in French spelling now being introduced across French education and to social change towards inclusive writing.
The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate and advanced levels.
This Grammar is accompanied by Practising French Grammar: A Workbook (available to purchase separately, ISBN 978-1-032-44140-5) which features related exercises and activities. An Instructor and Student Resource site also accompanies this book and offers additional resources at https://routledgelearning.com/frenchgrammarandusage
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Series
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
59 s/w Tabellen
59 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
878 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-44463-5 (9781032444635)
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Persons
Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.
Marie-Noelle Lamy is Emeritus Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK.
Roger Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.
Marie-Noelle Lamy is Emeritus Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK.
Roger Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.
Author
University of Salford, UK
The Open University, UK
The University of Essex, UK
Content
Guide for the user
Glossary of key grammatical terms
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements for the second edition
Acknowledgements for the third edition
Acknowledgements for the fourth edition
Acknowledgements for the fifth edition
1. Nouns
2. Determiners
3. 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. Conjugations and other linking constructions
Appendix 1: Orthographic Conventions
Appendix 2: Nouvelle Orthographe
Further Reading
Index
Glossary of key grammatical terms
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements for the second edition
Acknowledgements for the third edition
Acknowledgements for the fourth edition
Acknowledgements for the fifth edition
1. Nouns
2. Determiners
3. 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. Conjugations and other linking constructions
Appendix 1: Orthographic Conventions
Appendix 2: Nouvelle Orthographe
Further Reading
Index