French Grammar in Context

This edition has been updated with new core texts for Chapters 9 and 16, one new revision text
(2), and a variety of new exercises throughout. Page references to the relevant sections of two
additional reference grammar books, M. L’Huillier, Advanced French Grammar, and P. Turk and
G.G. Vandaele, Action grammaire, have been provided in each chapter. The Bibliography has been
updated to include these books, as well as the most recent editions of the other works listed. In
the reprint of the third edition of French Grammar in Context, the page references in each chapter
to A Comprehensive Grammar of Modern Frenchhad already been updated to refer to the sixth
edition (2008), using the name of G. Price, who substantially revised it, rather than the names of
the original compilers, L. S. R. Byrne and E. L. Churchill. Further changes have now been made as
follows. The page references to Mary E. Coffman Crocker, Schaum’s Outline of French Grammar
here refer to the fifth edition, published in 2009, and the page references to R. Hawkins and R.
To w e l l , French Grammar and Usageto the third edition, published in 2010. Minor corrections and
revisions have been made elsewhere. In particular, the occasional glosses to the texts have been
standardised so that they are all now in English, the language used for the grammatical
explanations and the rubrics for the exercises.
This new edition is supplemented by a companion website. The companion website provides a
wealth of additional interactive exercises to practise the material covered within the book. These
interactive exercises have been written by Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard.

Preface to the fourth edition