French Grammar in Context

French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as three additional revision texts.

French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as three additional revision texts.

Authentic texts from a rich variety of sources, literary and journalistic, are used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of French grammar, with each point consolidated with a wide range of written and spoken exercises. Grammar is presented not as an end in itself, but as a tool essential to enjoying French, understanding native speakers, and communicating effectively with them.

Literary texts and poems are taken from renowned French and Francophone authors such as Albert Camus, Émile Zola, Leïla Slimani, André Malraux, Amélie Nothomb, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Stendhal, Jacques Prévert, and Maryse Condé. News sources include Libération, Le Point, Marianne, and Le Monde Diplomatique, in addition to articles from regional papers such as Ouest-France and La Voix du Nord. Lifestyle articles are included from magazines such as Elle.

French Grammar in Context is aimed at intermediate and advanced students and is ideal for both independent and class-based study.

Autorentext

Margaret Jubb is Emeritus Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Annie Rouxeville was previously Senior Lecturer in French and Tutor at TILL, University of Sheffield, UK.

Michaël Abecassis is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford, UK.

Klappentext

French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as three additional revision texts.

Inhalt

1. The present tense

2. The passé composé

3. The imperfect

4. The pluperfect

5. The past historic and past anterior

6. The future and future perfect

7. The conditional (present and past)

8. The negative

9. Interrogatives

10. Personal pronouns

11. Relative pronouns

12. Nouns

13. Articles and quantifiers

14. Demonstratives

15. Possessives

16. Adjectives

17. Adverbs and adverbial phrases

18. Comparatives and superlatives

19. The imperative

20. Pronominal verbs

21. The passive

22. The infinitive and present participle

23. Verbs with à and de

24. Devoir, pouvoir, vouloir, savoir

25. Impersonal verbs

26. The subjunctive (present and perfect)

27. The subjunctive (imperfect and pluperfect)

28. Prepositions

29. Conjunctions

30. Word order

31. Registers of Language

32. Regional Varieties of French