French Grammar: Practising French Grammar: A Workbook

281 Pages·2010·5.22 MB·French

by  Roger Hawkins

Practising
FRENCH
Grammar
second edition
Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell
Marie-Noëlle Lamy
and
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Practising
FRENCH
Grammar
second edition
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Practising
FRENCH
Grammar
second edition
Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell
and Marie-Noëlle Lamy
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
LONDON AND NEW YORK
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First published 1997 by Hodder Education
This edition published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright © 2010, Roger Hawkins, Marie-Noëlle Lamy and Richard Towell.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Guide for the user xi
1 Nouns
1-3 Types of noun 1
4-9 Gender of nouns 6
10 Compound nouns 15
11 Plural forms of nouns 16
12 matin/matinée, etc. 19
13 How good is your memory? 20
2 Determiners
1-2 Definite article 21
3-5 Determiners with parts of the body 23
6-9 Indefinite and partitive articles 28
10 Omission of articles 32
11 Demonstratives and possessives 33
12 How good is your memory? 35
3 Personal and impersonal pronouns
1-3 Personal subject pronouns 36
4-6 Impersonal subject pronouns 41
7 on and l'on 44
8-9 Object pronouns 45
10-11 Pronominal and non-pronominal verbs 48
12 Pronouns with parts of the body 49
13 y and en 50
14 Combinations of object pronouns 51
15 Stressed pronouns 52
16 How good is your memory? 53
4 Adjectives
1-4 Position of adjectives 55
5 Adjectives used as nouns and adverbs 60
6-7 Masculine, feminine and plural forms of adjectives 62
8-10 Agreement, comparative and superlative forms of
adjectives 64
11 Creative writing 67
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5 Adverbs
1-4 Types of adverb 68
5 Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs 70
6 tout 71
7-9 Time, place and sentence-modifying adverbs 72
10 Location of adverbs 75
11 How good is your memory? 76
6 Numbers
1-3 Cardinal numbers 77
4 nombre, chiffre, numéro 80
5 en with numbers and quantifiers 80
6 Simple arithmetic 81
7-8 Ordinal numbers 81
9 Hundreds, thousands, etc. 83
10-12 Measurements, comparisons, dates 84
13 Quantifiers 87
14 How good is your memory? 88
7 Verb forms
1-3 Present, imperfect, simple past 89
4 Future and conditional 93
5-6 Subjunctive 94
7 Imperative 96
8-11 Irregular verbs 97
8 Verb constructions
1-3 Intransitive and transitive verbs 101
4-8 Passives and pronominal verbs 103
9 Impersonal verbs 111
10 How good is your memory? 112
9 Agreement
1 Subject-verb agreement 113
2 Agreement of the past participle with être 114
3-6 Agreement of the past participle with preceding direct
objects 115
7 Agreement of the past participle with pronominal verbs 121
8 Putting it all together 123
10 Tense
1 The present tense 126
2 Past tenses 127
3-6 The future and conditional 132
7 The past anterior 137
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8 si and the sequence of tenses 138
9 Putting it all together 139
11 The subjunctive, modal verbs and exclamatives
1-6 The subjunctive 141
7 Modal verbs 147
8 Exclamatives 148
9 How good is your memory? 148
12 Infinitives
1 Infinitive complements to other verbs 150
2 Infinitive complements to adjectives 153
3 Infinitive complements to nouns 154
4 Infinitives in instructions and commands 155
5 How good is your memory? 157
13 Prepositions
1 Prepositions with multiple meanings 159
2 Other prepositions 162
3 Working with prepositions from English into French 164
4 Prepositions in context 171
14 Questions
1-2 Yes/no questions 172
3-7 Information questions 173
8 Indirect questions 179
9 Putting it all together 179
15 Relative clauses
1-3 qui, que and lequel 181
4 dont and duquel 184
5 où 186
6-7 ce qui, ce que 187
8 Translating 'whoever', 'whatever', etc. 189
9 Putting it all together 190
16 Negation
1-3 ne...pas 191
4-6 ne ... que, ne ... aucun and ne... jamais 193
7 ne... plus and ne... guére 194
8 ne ... rien, ne ... personne and ne... ni... ni 195
9 Combining negators 196
10 How good is your memory? 197
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17 Conjunctions and other linking constructions
1 Coordinating conjunctions 198
2-8 Subordinating conjunctions 199
9-10 Past participles as linking devices 209
11-12 Present participles and gerunds 210
Answers to the exercises 213
Glossary of grammatical terms 259
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Acknowledgements
The authors and publisher would like to thank the following for permission
to use copyright material in this book:
Libération for the extract from the article '1,8 million de dollars' (6 March
2009, accessed via the internet) in Chapter 1; Femme Actuelle for the recipe
'Tarte sucrée aux blettes' (No. 620,12-18 aout 1996: 68) in Chapter 1; Editions
Gallimard for extracts from Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
(Collection Folio pp. 40-1, 55-6 © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1978) in
Chapters 1 and 2, Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style (Collection Folio pp.
7,22,32,49-50,116, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1947) in Chapters 1,4,6 and
10, Alexandre Jardin, Le Petit Sauvage (Collection Folio pp. 68-9, © Editions
Gallimard, Paris, 1992) in Chapter 3, Jacques Prévert, Paroles (the poem 'Pour
faire le portrait d'un oiseau', Collection Folio p. 155, © Editions Gallimard,
Paris, 1949) in Chapter 4; Le Nouvel Observateur for the extract 'Le travail noir'
(© Le Nouvel Observateur) in Chapter 1; United Feature Syndicate, Inc. for car
toons from ça ne va pas, Charlie Brown (Copyright © 1970 United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.) in Chapters 1, 5 and 14; Editions La Découverte for the
extract from A. Le Diberder and N. Coste-Cerdan, La T élévision (Collection
Repéres pp. 5-6, © Editions La Découverte, Paris, 1986) in Chapter 1; Maison-
Bricolages for the extract from Le Guide pratique (p. 31, 1988) in Chapter 1;
Larousse-Bordas for the extract from Gérard Mermet Francoscopie 1987 (p. 7,
© Larousse, Paris, 1986) in Chapter 2; the Estate of Georges Simenon for
extracts from Maigret se trompe (pp. 7-9, 111-113, © 1953, Estate of Georges
Simenon, all rights reserved. First published by Presses de la Cit é, Paris,
1953) in Chapters 3 and 14, and L'Ecluse (pp. 49-59, © 1977, Estate of Georges
Simenon, all rights reserved. First published by Presses-Pocket, Paris, 1977)
in Chapter 13; Le Monde, for the article 'Lille poursuit son enrreprise cul-
turelle et urbaine' by Geoffrey Deffrennes (13 March 2009) in Chapter 4 ;
Télérama for the extracts 'Les Brouches', 'Police fédérale de Los Angeles' and
'Le voyage de Joachim' (pp. 56, 95, 97, No. 2428, 27 July to 2 August 1996) in
Chapter 4; Plantu, for the cartoon 'Le fou' in Chapter 4; Soci été Ouest-France
for the extract from the article 'Parlons fran ços' (July 1996) in Chapter 8, and
for the recipe 'Tarte aux abricots' (25 July 1996) in Chapter 11; Librairie des
Champs-Elysées for extracts from the French translation of Ruth Rendell, To
Fear a Painted Devil (La Danse de Salomé, pp. 5, 7-8, Librairie des Champs-
Elysées, Paris, 1983) in Chapter 10 (reprinted by permission of the Peters
Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd); TV Magazine for the extracts 'Terreur à bord -
film TV americain de Douglas Heyes' and 'L'Etincelle - film de Michel Lang'