French Grammar and Usage

Fifth Edition

This website accompanies French Grammar and Usage, 5^th edition, and its accompanying workbook Practising French Grammar, 5^th edition.

The site offers students a set of practice exercises for each chapter, covering all key themes. Exercises are a mix of multiple-choice questions and gap-fill (write-in) questions.

The site also includes links to additional resources for learning and practising French. A password-protected Instructor Manual is available on our Instructor Resource Hub.

About the books

French Grammar and Usage

5th Edition

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal.

Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as cross-referencing for easier reference and explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar. This edition includes references to changes in French spelling now being introduced across French education and to social change towards inclusive writing.

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Practising French Grammar

A Workbook

5th Edition

The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels. Practising French Grammar offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French. It provides concise summaries of key grammatical points at the beginning of each exercise, as well as model answers to the exercises and translations of difficult words. The lively examples and authentic texts have been updated to reflect current usage.

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About the authors

Richard Towell is Emeritus Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK.

Marie-Noëlle Lamy is Emeritus Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK.

Roger Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

About the website contributors

Thanks to Christophe Gagne for the instructor manual and Miriam Burton for updating the site practice exercises.