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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462617103321

Autore

Hawkins Roger (Roger D.)

Titolo

Practising French grammar / / Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell and Marie-Noelle Lamy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-76787-X

1-283-96796-0

1-4441-2796-9

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LamyMarie-Noelle <1949->

TowellRichard

Disciplina

448.2421

Soggetti

French language - Grammar

French language - Usage

French language - English

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Practising FRENCH Grammar; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Guide for the user; 1 Nouns; 1-3 Types of noun; 4-9 Gender of nouns; 10 Compound nouns ; 11 Plural forms of nouns; 12 matin/matinée, etc ; 13 How good is your memory?; 2 Determiners; 1-2 Definite article; 3-5 Determiners with parts of the body; 6-9 Indefinite and partitive articles; 10 Omission of articles; 11 Demonstrative and possessives ; 12 How good is your memory?; 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns; 1-3 Personal subject pronouns; 4-6 Impersonal subject pronouns; 7 on and l'on; 8-9 Object pronouns

10--11 Pronominal and non-pronominal verbs12 Pronouns with parts of the body; 13 y and en; 14 Combinations of object pronouns; 15 Stressed pronouns; 16 How good is your memory?; 4 Adjectives; 1-4 Position of adjectives; 5 Adjectives used as nouns and adverbs; 6-7 Masculine, feminine and plural forms of adjectives; 8-10 Agreement, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives; 11 Creative writing; 5 Adverbs; 1-4 Types of adverb; 5 Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs; 6 tout ; 7-9 Time, place and sentence-modifying adverbs; 10



Location of adverbs; 11 How good is your memory?

6 Numbers1-3 Cardinal numbers; 4 nombre, chiffre, numéro; 5 en with numbers and quantifiers; 6 Simple arithmetic; 7-8 Ordinal numbers; 9 Hundreds, thousands, etc; 10-12 Measurements, comparisons, dates; 13 Quantifiers; 14 How good is your memory?; 7 Verb forms; 1-3 Present, imperfect, simple past; 4 Future and conditional  ; 5-6 Subjunctive; 7 Imperative; 8-11 Irregular verbs; 8 Verb constructions; 1-3 Intransitive and transitive verbs; 4-8 Passives and pronominal verbs; 9 Impersonal verbs; 10 How good is your memory?; 9 Agreement; 1 Subject-verb agreement

2 Agreement of the past participle with être3-6 Agreement of the past participle with preceding direct objects; 7 Agreement of the past participle with pronominal verbs; 8 Putting it all together; 10 Tense; 1 Present tense; 2 Past tenses; 3-6 The future and conditional; 7 The past anterior; 8 si and the sequence of tenses; 9 Putting it all together; 11 The subjunctive, modal verbs and exclamatives; 1-6 The subjunctive; 7 Modal verbs; 8 Exclamatives; 9 How good is your memory?; 12 Infinitives; 1 Infinitive complements to other verbs; 2 Infinitive complements to adjectives

3 Infinitive complements to nouns4 Infinitives in instructions and  commands; 5 How good is your memory?; 13 Prepositions; 1 Prepositions with multiple meanings; 2 Other prepositions; 3 Working with prepositions from English into French; 4 Prepositions in context; 14 Questions; 1-2 Yes/no questions; 3-7 Information questions; 8 Indirect questions; 9 Putting it all together; 15 Relative clauses; 1-3 qui, que and lequel; 4 dont and duquel; 5 où; 6-7 ce qui, ce que; 8 Translating 'whoever', 'whatever', etc; 9. Putting it all together; 16 Negation; 1-3 ne ... pas

4-6 ne ... que, ne ... aucun and ne... jamais

Sommario/riassunto

The new edition of Practising French Grammar offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a deep practical awareness of French as it is spoken and written today. It can be used alone or as the ideal companion to the new edition of the widely acclaimed French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The new edition benefits from the addition of a glossary of grammatical terms and a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most grammar-shy student. Lively, authentic texts and activities, as well as jokes and cartoons, help students to ex