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French Grammar and Usage book cover

5th Edition

French Grammar and Usage

By Richard Towell, Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Roger Hawkins Copyright 2025
496 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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