La Grammaire pour le dire

La Grammaire pour le dire was written with two basic principles in mind: minimizing grammatical jargon and maximizing the use of authentic French through exposure to some of the best examples of French and Francophone literature. Wherever possible, the exercises are built on the use of excerpts from well-crafted literary texts that clearly exhibit the grammatical structures which are covered in a typical French grammar review course.



The text reviews the verb conjugation concepts of voice, mood, and tense. It covers determiners, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns. Students can review direct and indirect reported speech and learn literary tenses.



This second edition features a more concise presentation of material, fresh literary excerpts and exercises, and new images. La Grammaire pour le dire enhances the language learning experience by giving students exposure to the language as it is used by native speakers. The literary excerpts not only model grammatical structures, but also convey cultural knowledge.

Edward Ousselin taught at the Institut de Touraine in France before moving to the United States and earning his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. He teaches French grammar review and composition courses at Western Washington University. He has written 30 articles on French culture, film, and literature, served as a contributing author for the textbook Liaisons: An Introduction to French, and translated and annotated a dual-language version of Marcel Proust’s Les Plaisirs et les Jours. He is the author of La France: histoire, société, culture and the editor in chief of the French Review, a scholarly journal published by the American Association of Teachers of French.