tailieunhanh - French Grammar and Usage

adjective - a class of words which modify nouns. Adjectives appear adjacent to nouns or separated from them by verbs like être, devenir, rester: . un PETIT problème 'a small problem'; une boîte CARRÉE 'a square box'; Cette robe est CHÈRE 'This dress is expensive | French Grammar and Usage French Grammar and Usage Second edition Roger Hawkins Senior Lecturer in Language and Linguistics University of Essex Richard Towell Professor of French Applied Linguistics University of Salford NATIVE SPEAKER CONSULTANT Marie-Noëlle Lamy Senior Lecturer Open University A member of the Hodder Headline Group LONDON Contents Guide for the user xi Glossary of key grammatical terms xiv Acknowledgements xx Acknowledgements for the second edition xxi 1 Nouns 1 Types of noun 1 Gender 5 Number 17 2 Determiners 23 Articles 23 Typical use of the definite article 24 Typical use of the indefinite article 29 The partitive article du de l de la des 32 Use of indefinite and partitive articles after the negative forms ne. pas ne. jamais ne. plus ne. guere 33 Omission of the article 34 Demonstrative determiners 37 Possessive determiners 39 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns 40 Subject pronouns 40 Object pronouns 53 Stressed pronouns 71 Demonstrative pronouns 75 Possessive pronouns 76 4 Adjectives 78 Adjectives modifying the noun 78 Adjectives which follow verbs or verbal expressions 83 Adjectives with complements 84 Indefinite and negative noun phrases with adjective complements 85 Adjectives used as nouns 85 Adjectives used as adverbs 86 Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives 86 Plural forms of adjectives 89 Adjective agreement with nouns .