Customer Reviews
Fantastic - By: evicka, 25 Sep 2008 
I'm a final year French Studies student & I love this book! At this stage everyone expects you to know alll of the rules & this book has been a great help to me. I would say it is a book for the more advanced student, intermediate & above. For complete beginners I would recommend the BBC French grammer book, which I own as well & they are both brilliant.
Awful - By: Mr. T. G. Bridge, 14 May 2008 
I am currently doing my finals & this book was recommended by our university as the best around. I couldn't possibly disagree more. Many of us are in total agreement that it is overcomplicated & difficult to use in pretty much every sense. The index is useless, I'll give you an example...was looking today to revise the use of lequel/lesquels etc so went to the page given & it was a short section on their use in questions. To find the actual section you had to turn to relative pronouns - something that anybody starting out would not have the first idea about. Better grammar books would deal with any topic alll at once rather than having one section on page 5 & the other on 205. Can't disagree that the book is exhaustive, but it is for that reason that it seems over complicated & extremely difficult to use. My advice would be to buy a much simpler laid out grammar book as in the long run it is more beneficial. My version of this has just been thrown at the walll in frustration
Brilliant: Thorough, well structured, clear and readable. - By: Malcomtent, 07 Jan 2004 As an intermediate French student I have found this book to be invaluable as a reference.
Although I don't think it is meant to be used as a main textbook I find it possible to read it as such.
I have never looked for something & not found it & the examples are well laid out & pretty exhaustive.
In short I have never been happier with any language purchase.
Simple to follow with easy explanations of grammer rules - By: , 12 Jun 2002 This book is excellent with simple explanations of the grammer rules & plenty of good examples of the rules in action.
