French grammar and usage / / Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell ; native speaker consultant, Marie-Noelle Lamy

• Autore: Hawkins Roger (Roger D.)
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Disciplina: 448.2421
• Soggetto topico: French language - English; French language - Grammar
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: TowellRichard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; French Grammar and Usage; Copyright Page; Contents; Guide for the user; Glossary of key grammatical terms; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements for the second edition; Acknowledgements for the third edition; 1. Nouns; 1.1 Types of noun; 1.2 Gender; 1.3 Number; 2. Determiners; 2.1 Articles; 2.2 Typical uses of the definite article; 2.3 Typical uses of the indefinite article; 2.4 The partitive article: du, de l', de la, des; 2.5 Use of indefinite and partitive articles after the negativeforms ne . . . pas, ne . . . jamais, ne . . . plus, ne . . . guère; 2.6 Omission of the article ; 2.7 Demonstrative determiners2.8 Possessive determiners; 3. Personal and impersonal pronouns; 3.1 Subject pronouns; 3.2 Object pronouns; 3.3 Stressed pronouns; 3.4 Demonstrative pronouns; 3.5 Possessive pronouns; 4. Adjectives; 4.1 Adjectives modifying the noun; 4.2 Adjectives which follow verbs or verbal expressions; 4.3 Adjectives with complements; 4.4 Indefinite and negative noun phrases with adjective complements; 4.5 Adjectives used as nouns; 4.6 Adjectives used as adverbs, and adverbs used as adjectives; 4.7 Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives; 4.8 Plural forms of adjectives ; 4.9 Adjective agreement with nouns4.10 Invariable adjectives; 4.11 Compound adjectives; 4.12 Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives; 4.13 Subjunctive versus indicative in clauses dependent on a superlative adjective; 4.14 Absolute use of the superlative; 5. Adverbs; 5.1 Function of adverbs; 5.2 Formation of adverbs with the ending - ment; 5.3 Adjectives used as adverbs without addition of - ment; 5.4 Phrases used as adverbs; 5.5 English and French adverb formation; 5.6 Types of adverbs; 5.7 Location of adverbs; 6. Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers; 6.1 Cardinal numbers ; 6.2 Ordinal numbers6.3 Fractions; 6.4 Some differences in the use of cardinal and ordinalnumbers in French and English; 6.5 Measurements and comparisons; 6.6 Dates, days, years; 6.7 Clock time; 6.8 Money; 6.9 Quantifiers; 7. Verb forms; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Conjugations; 7.3 Easy ways of generating some parts of the paradigms; 7.4 Changes in the stem form of some - er conjugation verbs; 7.5 Verbs whose stems end in c- or g-; 7.6 Verb paradigms; 8. Verb constructions; 8.1 Relations between verbs and their complements; 8.2 Intransitive constructions; 8.3 Directly transitive verbs ; 8.4 Indirectly transitive verbs8.5 Ditransitive verbs; 8.6 The passive; 8.7 Pronominal verbs; 8.8 Impersonal verbs; 8.9 Verbs which take noun + adjective or noun + noun complements; 9. Verb and participle agreement; 9.1 Subject- verb agreement; 9.2 Agreement of the past participle with the subject of être; 9.3 Agreement of the past participle of verbs conjugated with avoir with a preceding direct object; 9.4 Agreement of the past participle of pronominal verbs in compound tenses; 10. Tense; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The present; 10.3 The past; 10.4 The future ; 10.5 Other tenses indicating the time at which events occur relative to other events
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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. This combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage will prove invaluable to students and teachers of French from inte
• Titolo autorizzato: French grammar and usage
• ISBN: 0-203-78472-3; 1-299-28856-1; 1-4441-2795-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459351303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: HRG