French Grammar and Usage + Practising French Grammar (Routledge Reference Grammars) - Softcover

Towell, Richard; Lamy, Marie-Noëlle; Hawkins, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032908262 ISBN 13: 9781032908267

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear 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.

Key features include:

• comprehensive content, covering all the major structures of contemporary French

• user-friendly organisation offering easy-to-find sections with cross-referencing and indexes of English words, French words and grammatical terms

• clear and illuminating examples to help students at all stages of their degree

• useful indications of what cannot be written or said as well as what can.

Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as cross-referencing for easier reference and explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar. This edition includes references to changes in French spelling now being introduced across French education and to social change towards inclusive writing.

The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.

This Grammar is accompanied by Practising French Grammar: A Workbook (available to purchase separately ISBN 978-1-032-44140-5) which features related exercises and activities. An Instructor and Student Resource site also accompanies the book and offers additional resources at https://routledgelearning.com/frenchgrammarandusage.

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Practising French Grammar: Practising French Grammar, fifth edition, offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French as it is spoken and written today.

Practising French Grammar provides concise summaries of key grammatical points at the beginning of each exercise, as well as model answers to the exercises and translations of difficult words. The lively examples and authentic texts have been updated to reflect current usage.

This is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.

This book can be used alone or as the ideal companion to the fifth edition of French Grammar and Usage by Richard Towell, Marie-Noëlle Lamy, and Roger Hawkins (available to purchase separately ISBN 978-1-032-44463-5). An Instructor and Student Resource site also accompanies the book and offers additional resources at https://routledgelearning.com/frenchgrammarandusage.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.

Marie-Noëlle Lamy is Emeritus Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK.

Roger Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032908262
• ISBN 13: 9781032908267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 810