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.
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"Rodney Ball has done us a service in providing this compact summary of the major grammatical features of colloquial French, in a form that is at the same time thoroughly linguistic in its approach and quite accessible to the non-specialist. The book would be equally useful for [undergraduate] and graduate students; moreover with its abundant bibliographic references, it could serve well in French linguistics courses." French Review
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For someone like me, whose knowledge of French grammar is of the academic sort, gained in school and university, and whose exposure to everyday spoken French is very limited, this book has lots of interesting facts.I knew a few things, such as the use of "on" instead of "nous", the failure to make past participles agree, and the disappearance of "ne" from "ne... pas". But there is so much more to discover -- things that you'd never find by reading Gide or Mauriac.
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normative commentators, normative grammarians, français courant, dislocated sentences, français populaire, intonation peak, right detachment, verb units, plaint pas, français parlé, spoken code, spoken usage, past anterior, vous form, colloquial varieties, compound future, written usage, comme quoi, langage populaire, colloquial usage, relative marker, imperfect subjunctive, dites pas, familiar usage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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