Colloquial French grammar : a practical guide

✍ Scribed by Ball, Rodney

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Series: Blackwell reference grammars
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designed specifically for the language learner and for others requiring a description of informal French morphology and syntax, '' Colloquial French Grammar'' is the first detailed non-technical survey in English of the many differences between standard and non-standard usage

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Three Grammatical Processes. 3. Noun Phrases. 4. Verbs. 5. Conjunctions and Prepositions. 6. Sentence Structure and Organization. 7. Grammatical Effects of an Unreformed Spelling System. 8. Conclusions. Appendix 1: Answers to Selected Exercises. Appendix 2: Explanations of Grammatical Terms. Appendix 3: Using the International Phonetic Alphabet. References. Index.