Essential French grammar /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Essential grammar.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glossary of Grammatical Terms; Chapter 1: The French and English Languages Compared; 1.1 French and English: a common origin; 1.2 Vocabulary; 1.3 Grammar; Chapter 2: Nouns; 2.1 Types of nouns; 2.2 Gender; 2.3 Number; Chapter 3: Determiners; 3.1 The three types of article; 3.2 Forms of the articles; 3.3 The definite article; 3.4 The indefinite article; 3.5 The partitive article; 3.6 Omission of the article; 3.7 Demonstrative determiners; 3.8 Possessive determiners; Chapter 4: Pronouns
- 4.1 Subject pronouns4.2 Direct and indirect object pronouns; 4.3 y; 4.4 en; 4.5 Reflexive pronouns; 4.6 Order of object pronouns; 4.7 Stressed pronouns; 4.8 Coordination of personal pronouns; 4.9 Demonstrative pronouns; 4.10 Possessive pronouns; 4.11 Indefinite pronouns; Chapter 5: Adjectives; 5.1 The position of adjectives; 5.2 The feminine of adjectives; 5.3 Adjectives with a second masculine form; 5.4 The plural of adjectives; 5.5 Compound adjectives; 5.6 Agreement of adjectives with on; 5.7 Agreement of adjectives according to meaning; 5.8 Adjectives of colour; 5.9 Foreign borrowings
- 5.10 Special cases5.11 Adjectival expressions; 5.12 Comparison of adjectives; 5.13 Verbal adjectives; Chapter 6: Numbers; 6.1 Cardinal numbers; 6.2 Ordinal numbers; 6.3 Word order when a cardinal and ordinal number are together; 6.4 Approximate numbers; 6.5 Time; 6.6 Dates; 6.7 Measurements; 6.8 Fractions and calculations; 6.9 Quantifiers; Chapter 7: Adverbs; 7.1 Adverbs and adverbials; 7.2 Formation of adverbs ending in -ment; 7.3 Different types of adverbs; 7.4 Comparison of adverbs; 7.5 Position of adverbs; 7.6 Inversion after certain adverbs; Chapter 8: Negation
- 8.1 Position of negative expressions8.2 Order of negative expressions; 8.3 de with a direct object in negative sentences; 8.4 ne . . . aucun (no, not any, none); 8.5 ne . . . guère (hardly); 8.6 ne . . . jamais (never, not ever); 8.7 ne . . . ni . . . ni (neither . . . nor); 8.8 ne . . . nul(le) (no, not any); ne . . . nulle part (nowhere, not anywhere); ne . . . nullement (in no way, not in any way); 8.9 ne . . . pas (not); 8.10 ne . . . personne (nobody, not anybody, no one, not anyone); 8.11 ne . . . plus (no more, not any longer, no longer, not any more); 8.12 ne . . . que (only)
- 8.13 ne . . . rien (nothing, not anything)8.14 Omission of ne in speech; 8.15 Use of non and si; 8.16 n'est-ce pas ?; 8.17 Use of ne without a negative sense; 8.18 Negative words with sans; Chapter 9: Verbs 1; 9.1 The verb; 9.2 Characteristics of the verb; 9.3 Transitive and intransitive verbs; 9.4 Pronominal verbs; 9.5 Impersonal verbs; 9.6 Verbal aspect; Chapter 10: Verbs 2: Tenses of The Indicative; 10.1 Tenses; 10.2 The radical and verb endings; 10.3 The indicative mood; 10.4 The present tense; 10.5 The imperfect tense; 10.6 The compound past; 10.7 The simple past