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French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Calvez
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 181199
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 500
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 1
ISBN: 007144498X
Dewey Decimal Number: 448.2421
EAN: 9780071444989
ASIN: 007144498X
Publication Date: October 18, 2004
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Product Description
French Grammar helps language learners at every level navigate the intricacies of the French language. Designed to help you speak and write in French with greater confidence and precision, it avoids tedious memorization drills, focusing, instead, on patterns commonly found in contemporary French speech and writing. Chapters feature detailed presentations of forms and usages, clearly explained, along with lists, tables, and charts that offer at-a-glance summaries of the elements covered. This new edition includes 64 pages of exercises.
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 The efficiency of service September 17, 2008
Ong Li Ping (Singapore)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am pretty satisfied with the efficiency of the deliverance of the replacement order.Initially,
I was disappointed at the loss of the original order and also misunderstood that delivery was slow. I was pleasantly surprised that the package actually turned up.
 Great Grammar Reference Book June 16, 2008
F. Marcos Gomez (Caldwell, ID)
Since I haven't been in high school for over a year I've been wanting something to help me to refresh everything that I had learned. After hours of countless searching etc, I came across this book. I read some of the reviews on another site, and read the ones here and though I'd give it a try. It came rather quickly, and I was able to start 'studying' and refreshing everything. I was amazed, it's all completely well organized and it even focuses on the Subjunctive in a relatively good way. Although, I wish that it covered everything though in further detail. It gives good examples, but if you're someone like me, you'd love to see a specific grammar point used in detail. I'd recommend it.
too thick,too complex,only a reference,like a grammar dictionary May 8, 2008
Xu Zheng Yan (Tianjin,China)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
if u want to study French grammar,I recommend you to find a thin one.If you want to solve some problems in ur Fren study,I feel you can choose it.It is like a grammar dictionary that includes lots of conceptions,lots of notices,lots of lists...I put it on my desk accompany me like a dictionary when I study French.and it print is out of date.If you read through it all,I think you can be a French grammar master:)
Great book January 17, 2008
Vinicius Dornelles (Brazil)
French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide: This is a great book, very easy to learn the french language. It is very concise and fast reading with good examples. It is a very good choice for people who want to learn the language.
a great French reference grammar December 20, 2006
Arthad (Dayton, Tennessee)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a review of French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide, 2nd edition, by Daniel Calvez. McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN 007144498X.
As the title indicates, this book is a reference grammar. It's a great book to have when you need to know how to say something or refresh your memory about the particular placement of "que" in a "ne . . . que" phrase, because the material is very logically arranged. Between the index and the very thorough table of contents, if your question is answered somewhere in the book, you can find it. This book is not, however, a great thing to have if you know little or no French and want to teach yourself more of the language. In that case, buy a basic French course, not this book. True, it has a few exercises in the back, but they're best used selectively to reinforce a grammar concept you know you're weak on. The book has way too much information in it for someone to work straight through.
A note on the difference between the first and second editions: the second edition's text does not appear to have been reset from the first edition. The exercises in the back appear after the index and in a slightly different typeface. The inference I draw is that McGraw-Hill wanted to add exercises for the second edition, but didn't want to reset the entire book. They accordingly decided to stick the exercises in after the index, which is illogical, but it saved them from repaginating. It seems, then, that the only difference between the first and second editions is the addition of the exercises.
The grammar itself is clearly written, it's well-organized, and as the title indicates, it seems to be very complete. I haven't had a question yet it hasn't answered. In fact, I generally spend more time with the book than I intend: after I find the answer to whatever question I have, I begin browsing through the grammar. As previous reviewers have noted, however, make sure you know your grammatical terminology. The publisher's blurb is not quite accurate in claiming that the book defines all grammatical terms clearly: it does define them, but not very clearly. Don't come to this book to find out what a relative pronoun is. If you know what it is in English, then you'll find out how it's done in French. But if you don't know what it is at all, this book won't help you much.
If you're an intermediate or above French student, this book should be very helpful. But know your grammatical terminology.
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