Essential French Grammar
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Publisher Description
This is the first French grammar designed specifically for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire a knowledge of simple, everyday spoken French, and who have no need of all the archaic, highly literary, and seldom used forms that must be covered in a conventional grammar. It is not a simplified study, but a selective grammar that points out many time-saving short cuts.
Constantly drawing comparisons with English construction, it covers all of the important points in French grammar (verb forms and tenses, parts of speech, negative sentences, possessives, partitive construction, etc.) fully and logically, and with refreshing clarity. It was created for those who prefer the phrase approach, and all grammatical points are illustrated with phrases and sentences that you can incorporate directly into your working vocabulary. Many of the discussions include a list of common expressions that use the rule under study.
In addition to the grammar text itself, there are several unusual features of great value to anyone who wants to build a French vocabulary: a section on common word-endings and their French equivalents, for example, and a 50-page lit of French-English cognates.
This grammar does not assume any previous knowledge either of grammatical terms or of French grammar. English grammatical terms are explained in a separate section and all discussion begins with essentials and works up from there. Use it as an introduction to grammar, for independent class courses, with phrase courses, as a refresher, or for beginning self-study.
Customer Reviews
It's literally ESSENTIAL
If you only buy one book on learning to tweak you grammar-make it this one.
Great for experienced language students
I am not sure if this book is intended for new language learners. It is more like a reference manual with very direct explanations of both simple and complex grammatical forms as well as useful examples.
That said, for experienced language students this is an excellent resource. It skips the customary elementary dialogues meant to build vocabulary and gets right to the point of explaining and giving examples of how to construct grammatically correct language.
Sample
The sample does not represent the book well... I get a sample of the intro? Uh ok...