French Grammar and Usage + Practising French Grammar

Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.Marie-Noëlle 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

• French Grammar and Usage 5e:Guide for the userGlossary of key grammatical termsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgements for the second editionAcknowledgements for the third editionAcknowledgements for the fourth editionAcknowledgements for the fifth edition1. Nouns2. Determiners3. Pronouns4. Adjectives5. Adverbs6. Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers7. Verb forms8. Verb constructions9. Verb and participle agreement10. Tense11. The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives12. The infinitive13. Prepositions14. Question formation15. Relative clauses16. Negation17. Conjugations and other linking constructionsAppendix 1: Orthographic ConventionsAppendix 2: Nouvelle Orthographe Further ReadingIndex----Practising French Grammar 5e: Acknowledgements Guide for the user 1 Nouns1–3 Types of noun4–9 Gender of nouns10 Compound nouns11 Plural forms of nouns12 matin/matinée, etc.13 How good is your memory?2 Determiners1–2 Definite article3–5 Determiners with parts of the body6–9 Indefinite and partitive articles10 Omission of articles11 Demonstrative and possessive determiners12 How good is your memory?3 Personal and impersonal pronouns1–3 Personal subject pronouns4–6 Impersonal subject pronouns7 on and l’on 8–9 Object pronouns10–11 Pronominal and non-pronominal verbs12 Pronouns with parts of the body13 Use of y and en 14 Combinations of object pronouns15 Stressed pronouns16 Demonstrative and possessive pronouns17 How good is your memory?4 Adjectives1–4 Position of adjectives5 Adjectives used as nouns and adverbs6–7 Masculine, feminine and plural forms of adjectives8–10 Agreement, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives11 Creative writing5 Adverbs1–4 Types of adverb5 Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs6 Forms of tout 7–9 Time, place and sentence-modifying adverbs10 Location of adverbs11 How good is your memory?6 Numbers1–3 Cardinal numbers4 nombre, chiffre and numéro 5 Using en with numbers and quantifiers6 Simple arithmetic7–8 Ordinal numbers9 Hundreds, thousands, etc.10–12 Measurements, comparisons, dates13 Quantifiers14 How good is your memory?7 Verb forms1–3 Present, imperfect, simple past4 Future and conditional5–6 Subjunctive7 Imperative8–11 Irregular verbs8 Verb constructions1–3 Intransitive and transitive verbs4–8 Passives and pronominal verbs9 Impersonal verbs10 How good is your memory?9 Agreement1 Subject–verb agreement2 Agreement of the past participle with être 3–6 Agreement of the past participle with preceding direct objects7 Agreement of the past participle with pronominal verbs8 Putting it all together10 Tense1 Present tense2 Past tenses3–6 The future and conditional7 The past anterior8 si and the sequence of tenses9 Putting it all together11 The subjunctive, modal verbs and exclamatives1–6 The subjunctive7 Use of devoir, pouvoir, savoir and falloir 8 Exclamatives9. Imperatives10.How good is your memory?12 Infinitives1 Infinitive complements to other verbs2 Infinitive complements to adjectives3 Infinitive complements to nouns4 Infinitives in instructions and as polite commands5 How good is your memory?13 Prepositions1 Prepositions with multiple meanings2 Other prepositions3 Working with prepositions from English into French4 Prepositions in context14 Questions1–2 Yes/no questions3–7 Information questions8 Indirect questions9 Putting it all together15 Relative clauses1–3 qui, que and lequel 4 dont and duquel 5 Relative où 6–7 Use of ce qui, ce que, etc.8 Translating ‘whoever’, ‘whatever’, ‘however’9 Putting it all together16 Negation1–3 ne … pas 4–6 ne… que, ne… aucun and ne … jamais 7 ne… plus and ne… guère 8 ne… rien, ne … personne and ne … ni… ni 9 Combining negators10 How good is your memory?17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions1 Coordinating conjunctions2–8 Subordinating conjunctions9–10 Past participles as linking devices11 Present participles and adjectives12 Present participles and gerundsAnswers to the exercises Glossary of grammatical terms