Collins Easy Learning French Grammar (Collins Easy Learning) (Collins Easy Learning Dictionaries)

I've been living in France for eighteen months now, and this book has been a life-saver. It's extremely easy to use: organised by parts of speech (but with a glossary to explain terms used for those who don't know), each section has a wealth of examples included, so you're not just learning grammar rules, you're learning the actual language. "Key points" included at the end of each section reinforce the principles learned.

There's also an index of words used, so when you come across something like "en" and just can't figure out what it's doing in a sentence, you can easily look up all the things it *might* be doing. The authors show great sensitivity to common problems that English speakers have with the French language, and also to the differing registers of formality within French. Of course, no French grammar would be complete without tables of irregular verbs, and these are included too.

This is an extremely useful book which no beginning student of French should be without.
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