French Grammar: Practising French Grammar: A Workbook (Hodder Arnold Publication) (French Edition)

The new edition of Practising French Grammar offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a deep practical awareness of French as it is spoken and written today. It can be used alone or as the ideal companion to the new edition of the widely acclaimed French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The new edition benefits from the addition of a glossary of grammatical terms and a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most grammar-shy student. Lively, authentic texts and activities, as well as jokes and cartoons, help students to expand their vocabulary, and their ability to speak French. Practising French Grammar provides summaries of key grammatical points at the beginning of each exercise, as well as model answers to the exercises and translations of difficult words making it ideal for use both in class and by independent learners. Practising FRENCH Grammar 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Guide for the user 12 1 Nouns 14 1–3 Types of noun 14 4–9 Gender of nouns 19 10 Compound nouns 28 11 Plural forms of nouns 29 12 matin/matinée, etc 32 13 How good is your memory? 33 2 Determiners 34 1–2 Definite article 34 3–5 Determiners with parts of the body 36 6–9 Indefinite and partitive articles 41 10 Omission of articles 45 11 Demonstrative and possessives 46 12 How good is your memory? 48 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns 49 1–3 Personal subject pronouns 49 4–6 Impersonal subject pronouns 54 7 on and l'on 57 8–9 Object pronouns 58 10–-11 Pronominal and non-pronominal verbs 61 12 Pronouns with parts of the body 62 13 y and en 63 14 Combinations of object pronouns 64 15 Stressed pronouns 65 16 How good is your memory? 66 4 Adjectives 68 1–4 Position of adjectives 68 5 Adjectives used as nouns and adverbs 73 6–7 Masculine, feminine and plural forms of adjectives 75 8–10 Agreement, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives 77 11 Creative writing 80 5 Adverbs 81 1–4 Types of adverb 81 5 Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs 83 6 tout 84 7–9 Time, place and sentence-modifying adverbs 85 10 Location of adverbs 88 11 How good is your memory? 89 6 Numbers 90 1–3 Cardinal numbers 90 4 nombre, chiffre, numéro 93 5 en with numbers and quantifiers 93 6 Simple arithmetic 94 7–8 Ordinal numbers 94 9 Hundreds, thousands, etc 96 10-12 Measurements, comparisons, dates 97 13 Quantifiers 100 14 How good is your memory? 101 7 Verb forms 102 1–3 Present, imperfect, simple past 106 4 Future and conditional 107 5–6 Subjunctive 109 7 Imperative 109 8–11 Irregular verbs 110 8 Verb constructions 114 1–3 Intransitive and transitive verbs 114 4–8 Passives and pronominal verbs 116 9 Impersonal verbs 124 10 How good is your memory? 125 9 Agreement 126 1 Subject–verb agreement 126 2 Agreement of the past participle with être 127 3–6 Agreement of the past participle with preceding direct objects 128 7 Agreement of the past participle with pronominal verbs 134 8 Putting it all together 136 10 Tense 139 1 Present tense 139 2 Past tenses 140 3–6 The future and conditional 145 7 The past anterior 150 8 si and the sequence of tenses 151 9 Putting it all together 152 11 The subjunctive, modal verbs and exclamatives 154 1–6 The subjunctive 154 7 Modal verbs 160 8 Exclamatives 161 9 How good is your memory? 161 12 Infinitives 163 1 Infinitive complements to other verbs 163 2 Infinitive complements to adjectives 166 3 Infinitive complements to nouns 167 4 Infinitives in instructions and commands 168 5 How good is your memory? 170 13 Prepositions 172 1 Prepositions with multiple meanings 172 2 Other prepositions 175 3 Working with prepositions from English into French 177 4 Prepositions in context 184 14 Questions 185 1–2 Yes/no questions 185 3–7 Information questions 186 8 Indirect questions 192 9 Putting it all together 192 15 Relative clauses 194 1–3 qui, que and lequel 194 4 dont and duquel 197 5 où 199 6–7 ce qui, ce que 200 8 Translating 'whoever', 'whatever', etc 202 9. Putting it all together 203 16 Negation 204 1–3 ne ... pas 204 4–6 ne ... que, ne ... aucun and ne... jamais 206 7 ne... plus and ne... guére 207 8 ne ... rien, ne ... personne and ne ... ni... ni 208 9 Combining negators 209 10 How good is your memory? 210 17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions 211 1 Coordinating conjunctions 211 2–8 Subordinating conjunctions 212 9–10 Past participles as linking devices 222 11–12 Present participles and gerunds 223 Answers to the exercises 226 Glossary of grammatical terms 272 "The new edition of Practicing French Grammar offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a deep practical awareness of French as it is spoken and written today. It can be used alone or as the ideal companion to the new edition of the widely acclaimed French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The new edition benefits from the addition of a glossary of grammatical terms and a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most grammar-shy student. Lively, authentic texts and activities, as well as jokes and cartoons, help students to expand their vocabulary, and their ability to speak French. Practicing French Grammar provides summaries of key grammatical points at the beginning of each exercise, as well as model answers to the exercises and translations of difficult words making it ideal for use both in class and by independent learners."--Publisher's description The new edition of offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a deep practical awareness of French as it is spoken and written today. It can be used alone or as the ideal companion to the new edition of the widely acclaimed by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The new edition benefits from the addition of a glossary of grammatical terms and a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most grammar-shy student. Lively, authentic texts and activities, as well as jokes and cartoons, help students to expand their vocabulary, and their ability to speak French. __Practising French Grammar__