[PDF] A Reference Grammar Of French eBook

Author : R. E. Batchelor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139504010

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A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign words (Latin, Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian), adjectives and past participles used as nouns, texting, word order, frequency of occurrence of words, and usage with all geographical names. Examples come not only from France, but also from Quebec, Belgium and Switzerland. Readers will appreciate the initial passages illustrating the grammatical features of a given chapter. Also included is a user-friendly introduction to the French language, from its Latin origins to modern times. A full glossary explains any terms that might confuse the less experienced reader, and the index leads the student through the detailed labyrinth of grammatical features. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers who want to perfect their knowledge of all aspects of French grammar.

Author : Daniel Calvez
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2004-11-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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French Grammar helps language learners at every level navigate the intricacies of the French language. Designed to help you speak and write in French with greater confidence and precision, it avoids tedious memorization drills, focusing, instead, on patterns commonly found in contemporary French speech and writing. Chapters feature detailed presentations of forms and usages, clearly explained, along with lists, tables, and charts that offer at-a-glance summaries of the elements covered. This new edition includes 64 pages of exercises.

Author : Monique L'Huillier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521484251

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This 1999 reference grammar, written for advanced students of French, their teachers, and others who want a better understanding of the French language, combines the best of modern and traditional approaches. Its objective is not only practical mastery of the language, but familiarity with its structure. Taking into account modern linguistic research, Advanced French Grammar approaches the French language primarily through the study of syntactic structures, but without excessive emphasis on formalism. It provides a generous number of examples, based on the author's own experience of teaching French to English-speakers, to help the student to understand the different meanings of apparently similar syntactic alternatives. The norms of 'correct expression' are given together with current usage and deviations, and appendixes provide information on the 1990 spelling reforms and on numbers. A substantial index of French and English words and of topics provides easy access to the text itself.

Author : W. Rowlinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198603412

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"Oxford Easy Grammar" texts cover all the fundamental and essential points of a language's grammar in a clear and user-friendly way, with every grammatical point clearly explained and backed up by examples in English before being illustrated in the foreign language.

Author : Margaret Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134323026

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This new edition of the Modern French Grammar is an innovative reference guide to French, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Divided into two parts, Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives and Part B is organized around language functions and notions such as: giving and seeking information describing processes and results expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Implementing feedback from users of the first edition of the Grammar, this second edition includes clearer explanations and greater emphasis on areas of particular difficulty for learners of French. This is the ideal reference grammar for learners of French at all levels, from beginner to advanced. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is assumed and a glossary of grammatical terms is provided. This Grammar is complemented by the Modern French Grammar Workbook Second Edition which features related exercises and activities.

Author : Trudie Maria Booth
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0761849718

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This comprehensive manual thoroughly covers every aspect of French grammar, from the basic to the most advanced level, and illustrates the grammatical structures with useful, practical and interesting examples. Up-to-date language and usage both on the formal and on the informal level is paired with cultural information about France, making the study of grammar a pleasant experience. The book offers its users clear and detailed explanations, as well as the opportunity to practice their reading, writing and speaking skills in numerous oral and written exercises, which include translations, suggestions for communicative activities with a partner, and topics for written composition. A Complete French Grammar for Reference and Practice can be used as a classroom text in intermediate and advanced courses, as well as for reference and self-study. It is a reliable source of information for teachers and students alike, and addresses all those learners who want to speak and write French correctly.

Author : Roger Hawkins
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : French language
ISBN : 9780340760758

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This book provides a jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of French as it is spoken and written in France. It represents a combination of reference grammar and a manual of current usage.

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1461583683

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(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.

Author : Anne Judge
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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"A Reference Grammar of Modern French" has established itself as the standard English-language reference grammar for the French language. It provides teachers, students and others interested in the French language with a comprehensive, accessible, and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of French as it is currently spoken and written in France and in the rest of the French-speaking world. The scope of the grammar is very broad, dealing with both spoken and written French. Levels of usage (literary, educated, formal, informal, and slang) are specified, so that the importance of context in the use of language is recognized. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Ronald Ernest Batchelor
Publisher :
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781139112604

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Features the structure of the French language, including new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign words, adjectives and past participles used as nouns, texting, word order, frequency of occurrence of words, and usage with all geographical names.