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This section contains an exhaustive description of French grammar, aimed at advanced college or university learners, or teachers and other language professionals.

49 Expressing time and duration (3) view unit

1 Depuis • 2 Pendant • 3 Depuis que / pendant que • 4 La première fois que

50 Expressing position and place view unit

1 General position • 2 Points of the compass • 3 Giving directions • 4 Countries / nationalities

51 Expressing cause view unit

1 Conjunctions • 2 Prepositions • 3 Verbal expressions • 4 Participles and adjectives • 5 Juxtaposition

52 Expressing result view unit

1 Conjunctions • 2 Adverbial phrases • 3 Verbs • 4 Juxtaposition

53 Expressing opposition and concession view unit

1 Conjunctions • 2 Expressing whatever, however, whoever, wherever • 3 Prepositions • 4 Adverbial phrases

54 Expressing hypothesis and condition view unit

1 Si clauses • 2 Other conjunctions • 3 Other ways of expressing condition

55 Expressing goal view unit

1 Finite clauses • 2 Nonfinite clauses • 3 Verbal expressions

56 Creating emphasis view unit

1 Definitions • 2 Stressing nouns and pronouns using dislocation • 3 Stressing nouns and pronouns using extraction • 4 Stressing possessives • 5 Stressing demonstratives • 6 Stressing adverbial phrases • 7 Stressing verbs • 8 Emphasising two elements