Modern French Grammar: A Practical Guide

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Thisasecond edition of the Modern French Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to French, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume." Book Cover Half-Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction How to use this book I The noun group 1 Articles 2 The definite article 3 The indefinite article 4 The partitive article 5 Demonstrative adjectives 6 Demonstrative pronouns 7 Possessive adjectives 8 Possessive pronouns 9 Nouns 10 Adjectives 11 Indefinite adjectives, pronouns and adverbs 12 Personal pronouns 13 Reflexive pronouns 14 Emphatic pronouns; position and order of pronouns 15 Relative pronouns 16 Interrogative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs 17 Cardinal and ordinal numbers (see 49.4, 49.7) 18 Fractions (see 49.7) 19 Approximate quantities (see 49.7) 20 Dimensions (see 49.6) 21 Adverbs of quantity (see 4.3, 49.7) II The verb group 22 Agreement of verb and subject 23 Formation of tenses 24 The indicative tenses; the present tense 25 The future tense 26 The imperfect tense 27 The past historic 28 The compound tenses 29 How the perfect is used 30 How the future perfect is used 31 How the pluperfect is used 32 How the past anterior is used 33 The conditional and the conditional perfect 34 The subjunctive 35 The present subjunctive 36 The imperfect subjunctive 37 The perfect subjunctive 38 The pluperfect subjunctive 39 Sequence of tenses; uses of the subjunctive 40 Reflexive verbs 41 The passive 42 The past participle 43 The present participle 44 The imperative 45 The infinitive 46 Impersonal verbs 47 Adverbs 48 Prepositions III Exposition 49 Referring to people, things and places 49.1 Physical characteristics 49.2 Personality 49.3 Relationships 49.4 Age 49.5 Ownership 49.6 Dimensions (see 20) 49.7 Quantity and number (see 21, 17) 49.8 Quality 49.9 Comparison (see 10.10–12) 49.10 Directions 49.11 Location 49.12 Manner (see 47.1–47.2.2) 50 Narrating 50.1 Present time (see 24.3, 24.7) 50.2 Past time 50.3 Future time (see 25.3) 50.4 Dates and time (see 2.4c) 50.5 Sequence 51 Reporting 52 Asking questions 53 Negating (see 47.7–47.13) IV Attitude 54 Greeting and leave-taking 54.1 Greeting 54.2 Leave-taking 55 Expressing congratulations and appreciation 55.1 Congratulations 55.2 Appreciation 56 Expressing apologies and sympathy 56.1 Apologies 56.2 Sympathy 57 Expressing surprise and disgust 57.1 Surprise 57.2 Disgust 58 Expressing contrasting attitudes, emotions, feelings 58.1 Likes and dislikes 58.2 Preference 59 Love and hate 60 Enthusiasm and indifference 61 Hopes, fears and regrets 62 Approval and disapproval V Argumentation 63 Agreeing and disagreeing 63.1 Agreeing 63.2 Disagreeing 63.3 Agreeing to differ 64 Asserting and confirming 64.1 Asserting 64.2 Confirming 65 Admitting and conceding 65.1 Admitting 65.2 Conceding 66 Correcting and protesting 67 Contradicting and criticizing 68 Suggesting and persuading 68.1 Suggesting 68.2 Persuading someone to think the way you do 68.3 Persuading someone to do/not to do something 68.4 Other ways of persuading and dissuading 69 Expressing volition 69.1 Verbs expressing volition 69.2 Wishing and intending 69.3 Asking what someone intends 69.4 Asking someone for something 69.5 Expressing (un)willingness to act upon request 69.6 Deliberate or non-deliberate actions 69.7 Saying what you do not want 70 Expressing permission and obligation 70.1 Permission 70.2 Prohibition 70.3 Obligation 70.4 Exemption 71 Expressing doubt and certainty 71.1 Doubt and certainty 71.2 Possibility and probability 71.3 Condition and hypothesis 72 Expressing logical relations 72.1 Cause—explicit 72.2 Cause—implicit 72.3 Consequence—explicit 72.4 Consequence—implicit 72.5 Aim 73 Expressing opposition 74 Structuring 74.1 Beginning 74.2 Continuing 74.3 Ending VI The sounds of French 75 Vowels 76 Nasal vowels 77 Semi-vowels/semi-consonants 78 Consonants 79 Accents, cedilla, diaeresis 80 Liaison 81 Elision Verb tables Index of grammar structures and functions