Essential French grammar [electronic resource] / Robin Adamson and Brigitte Edelston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamson, Robin.

Contributor:

Edelston, Brigitte.

Series:

Teach yourself books.

Teach yourself

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Grammar.

French language.

French language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essential French Grammar will help you get more out of your study of French. Now in a brand new edition with new, easy-to-follow page design and interactive on-line features.

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Abbreviations; Meet the authors; Only got a minute?; Only got five minutes?; Only got ten minutes?; Introduction; How to use this book; Storyline; 1 Greetings and introductions; Introducing people; Counting to 100; Greetings; Talking about yourself/someone else; Asking for and giving personal information; 2 Likes and dislikes; Expressing preferences; Asking about likes, dislikes and hobbies; Days and dates; 3 Describing people, things and routines; Descriptions; Daily activities; Telling the time; 4 Making requests; Saying what you need

Asking what/where/how much something isAsking which one; Quantities and sizes; 5 Saying what you prefer; Talking about preferences; Comparing things, places and people; 6 Saying what you are going to do; Talking about where you are going and what you are going to do; Locating/asking questions about people, places and things; 7 Saying who owns what; Personal ownership and belongings; 8 Permission and obligation; Saying what you can do; Giving and refusing permission; Giving orders and instructions; 9 Directions, instructions and advice; Giving and asking for directions, instructions and advice

10 Describing a sequence of eventsDescribing the stages of a process; Relating events to one another; Saying why something happened; 11 Future plans and events; Asking and talking about future events, hopes and plans; 12 Orders and instructions; Asking someone to do or not to do something; Giving orders and instructions; 13 Talking about past events; Saying what took place over a period of time; Presenting things that happened in the recent past; 14 Repeated actions in the past; Talking about things you used to do regularly and situations which lasted for some time

Discussing single events set in the pastSaying how often you did things; 15 Going back in the past; Saying that something happened before or after something else; Writing an account of past activities; Saying that something was done by someone to someone else; 16 Wishes, probability and possibility; Saying what you want and what you wish for; Saying what is probable or possible; Longer and more complex sentences; 17 How you feel about something; Saying what you intend to do and why; Putting restrictions on your own and other people's actions; Expressing doubt, hopes, fears

18 Imagining what could happenSaying what would have to take place before something else could happen; Imagining how you would react in certain circumstances; Saying what you thought would happen; Transcriptions - The story (Units 8-18); A quick check - Key; Key irregular verbs in different tenses; Glossary; A; C; D; E; F; G; I; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

"First published in UK 1998 by Hodder Education ... First published in US 1998 by the McGraw-Hill Companies Inc."--t.p. verso.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-38702-2

9786613819246

1-4441-2620-2

OCLC:

804662569