Colloquial French Grammar

By Rodney Ball

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631218831
• ISBN13: 9780631218838
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

not in Gide or Mauriac

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.