French Grammar and Usage, 3rd Edition

by Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell

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 aspects of
the language, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French. Praised for its clear lay-out and lucid explanations, the new edition includes updated examples, enhanced cross-referencing and expanded explanations of the most difficult points of grammar.

Genres: France, Language, Reference, Nonfiction, Linguistics

441 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 1996

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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