French Grammar and Usage + Practising French Grammar (Routledge Reference Grammars) - Softcover

Hawkins, Roger; Towell, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138898406 ISBN 13: 9781138898400

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar 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 use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal.

Key features include:

• 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 help students at all stage of their degree
• Useful indications of what cannot be said as well as what can

Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, new headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as enhanced cross-referencing for easier reference and expanded and more nuanced explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar.

The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.

This Grammar is accompanied by the Practising French Grammar: A Workbook which features related exercises and activities and a companion website offering additional resources at www.routledge.com/cw/hawkins.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Hawkins is Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Richard Towell is Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford and a past President of the Association of French Language Studies.

Review:

...focuses on those aspects of French grammar known to cause difficulties for English-speaking learners of French. It uses an up-to-date approach with modern terminology, but takes care to ensure that all terms and ideas are clearly explained. Students and teachers alike will find that it does an excellent job.Professor R. A. Lodge, University of St. Andrews, This book is a major contribution to reference works on French grammar.Francophonie...a comprehensive and reliable grammar...French Language Studies'What I particularly like about this book is the fact that its explanations are rooted in current research on spoken and written French discourse. In addition, it provides students with a variety of tools that they can use to make different types of analogies and generalizations; the acquisition of such tools allows them to continue the acquisition process well beyond any course.'Nadine DiVitro, Director of Romance Language Programs, University of Chicago

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138898406
• ISBN 13: 9781138898400
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 744