A comprehensive French grammar
Characterized by clear and accessible explanations, numerous examples and sample sentences, a new section on register and tone, and useful appendices covering topics including age and time, A Comprehensive French Grammar, Sixth Edition is an indispensable tool for advanced students of French language and literature. A revised edition of this established, bestselling French grammarIncludes a new section on register and medium and offers expanded treatment of French punctuationFeatures numerous e…
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- Full title :A comprehensive French grammar / Glanville Price.
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Characterized by clear and accessible explanations, numerous examples and sample sentences, a new section on register and tone, and useful appendices covering topics including age and time, A Comprehensive French Grammar, Sixth Edition is an indispensable tool for advanced students of French language and literature. A revised edition of this established, bestselling French grammarIncludes a new section on register and medium and offers expanded treatment of French punctuationFeatures numerous examples and sample sentences, and useful appendices covering topics including a.
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- Publication Date:2008.
- Edition:6th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Malden, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Previous edition: 2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 588 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1306584817, 9781306584814, 9781118697634, 1118697634
- oclc:ocn877050039
- LC Classification:PC2112
- Dewey Decimal:448.2/421
Table of Contents
Title Page; Contents; Preface; Selective bibliography; Technical terms and abbreviations; Introduction; Alphabet; Phonetic transcriptions; The two varieties of 'H' in French; Capitals; Punctuation; Division into syllables; Hyphens; Accents and the cedilla; Diaeresis; Elision; Medium and register; The Noun Phrase; Introduction; Determiners; Articles; Introduction; Definite article; Indefinite article; Partitive article; Gender; Introduction; Gender according to meaning; Gender and sex; other categories; The gender of place-names; Gender shown by ending; Masculine endings; Feminine endings
Problematic endingsThe gender of compound nouns; Words that are identical in form but different in gender; Some anomalies of gender; Gender of other parts of speech used as nouns; The feminine of nouns and adjectives; Introduction; Spoken French; Written French; The plural of nouns; Spoken French; Written French; Compound nouns; Miscellaneous; The plural of adjectives; Agreement of adjectives; The position of adjectives; The comparison of adjectives and adverbs; Adjectives used as nouns; Numerals; Fractions; Pronouns and pronominal determiners; Personal pronouns; Introduction
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