English Practice Grammar: French Edition

English Practice Grammar: For French Students contains the essential grammar for successful communication in English up to the intermediate level. It is directed at students from the third year at secondary school up to baccalaureat level and beyond to those at DEUG level at university.

This simple and easy-to-use book uses everyday situations to teach language structures. Grammatical points are presented using illustrations, clear explanations in English and French, and numerous examples. Thorough practice exercises enable students to develop and test their language skills.

English Practice Grammar: For French Students is a reference and practice book in one. It is perfect both for self-study and for use in class.

How to use this book

• Two-page units have grammar on the left-hand side and practice exercises on the right.
• Four-page units deal with larger grammar areas in more detail. Two pages of grammar are followed by two pages of practice exercises.
• Special appendix sections give additional information about irregular verbs, spelling rules, punctuation, numbers, days, dates and times.

Key Features

• Easy-to-use and straightforward layout enables students to find information quickly
• Grammatical points illustrated by authentic examples from everyday life
• Perfect for self-study and classroom use
• Appendix includes irregular verbs, pronunciation and spelling tips

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements and dedication

Basic verb forms
1. Imperatives
2. Present simple
3. Present simple: be
4. Present continuous
5. Present simple or present continuous
6. Past simple
7. Past simple: be
8. Past continuous
9. Present perfect 1
10. Present perfect 2
11. Present perfect or past simple
12. Present perfect continuous
13. Past perfect and past simple
14. Future with going to
15. Future with will
16. Future continuous
17. Future perfect
18. Future review
19. have and have got
20. Review: main verb forms
21. Review: auxiliary verb forms
22. Short form or full form

Question forms and answers
23. Question forms 1
24. Question forms 2
25. Tag questions
26. Short answers
27. Indirect forms
28. So and Neither/Nor; so and not

Modal auxiliary verbs
29. Modal auxiliary verbs 1
30. Modal auxiliary verbs 2
31. Modal auxiliary verbs 3
32. Modal auxiliary verbs 4
33. Modal auxiliary verbs 5
34. Modal auxiliary verbs 6
35. Modal auxiliary verbs 7: past forms
36. Review: modal auxiliary verbs

Passive verb forms
37. Passive verb forms 1
38. Passive verb forms 2

Infinitives and ing forms
39. Verb + to + infinitive or verb + ing form 1
40. Verb + to + infinitive or verb + ing form 2
41. Verb + object + to + infinitive
42. Verb/adjective + preposition + ing form

Conditional forms
43. Conditional forms: type 0 and type 1
44. Conditional forms: type 2
45. Conditional forms: type 3

Reported speech
46. Reported speech 1: statements
47. Reported speech 2: questions
48. Reported speech 3: orders, promises, etc.

Nouns and articles
49. Singular and plural
50. Irregular noun forms
51. Countable and uncountable nouns
52. Articles 1: a, an, the and some
53. Articles 2: general and specific

Other determiners and pronouns
54. Demonstratives; one and ones
55. some or any
56. There, It and They
57. Quantity
58. Partitives
59. Pronouns: subject and object
60. Pronouns: possessive
61. Pronouns: reflexive
62. Direct and indirect objects
63. something, anybody, everyone, etc.

Relative clauses
64. Relative clauses 1
65. Relative clauses 2
66. Relative clauses 3
67. Relative clauses 4

Adjectives and adverbs
68. Adjectives 1
69. Adjectives 2
70. Adjectives and adverbs
71. Adverb positions
72. Adverb types
73. Comparison 1: adjective and adverb forms
74. Comparison 2: sentence patterns
75. too and enough
76. a bit, very; much, a lot; so, much

Prepositions
77. Prepositions 1: place and movement
78. Prepositions 2: place
79. Prepositions 3: time
80. Prepositions 4: time
81. Preposition + noun, noun + preposition
82. Adjective + preposition
83. Prepositional verbs
84. Phrasal verbs

The sentence and its parts
85. Word classes
86. Sentence: types and structure
87. Connecting clauses
88. Connecting sentences

Appendices
1. Irregular verbs
2. Some spelling rules
3. Punctuation
4. Numbers
5. Days, dates and times

Index

Answer key