French Grammar and Usage
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.
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Contents
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1 Nouns
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1 |
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2 Determiners
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26 |
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3 Personal and impersonal pronouns
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45 |
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4 Adjectives
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85 |
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5 Adverbs
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108 |
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6 Numbers measurements time and quantifiers
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136 |
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7 Verb forms
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158 |
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8 Verb constructions
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198 |
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12 The infinitive
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288 |
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13 Prepositions
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317 |
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14 Question formation
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350 |
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15 Relative clauses
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367 |
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16 Negation
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383 |
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17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions
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400 |
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Appendix
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Common terms and phrases
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