fourth edition
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:
Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, new headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as enhanced cross-referencing for easier reference and expanded and more nuanced explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar.
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 978-1-138-85119-1) which features related exercises and activities and a companion website offering additional resources at www.routledge.com/cw/hawkins.
Roger Hawkins is Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.
Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.
Also available in this series:
Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, Fifth Edition
A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian, Second Edition
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, Fifth Edition
Companion workbooks available to purchase separately:
Practising French Grammar, Fourth Edition
Practising German Grammar, Third Edition
Practising Italian Grammar
Practising Spanish Grammar, Third Edition