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4 May 2000

1.1.5 Quantifying Adjectives, in L'Huillier, Advanced French Grammar


presentation of L'Huillier's work, by Corry Shores

[Subsection headings are my own]



Monique L'Huillier

Advanced French Grammar

1. Framework

1.1 Parts of Speech

1.1.5 Quantifying Adjectives


(i) QualitiesJustify Full


Qualifying adjectives express some quality of the noun's referent.


(ii) Gender & Number Agreement


Quantifying adjectives agree in number and gender with their noun

1) Gender: Masculine or Feminine
Ex,
un livre intéressant; une belle robe

2) Number: Singular or Plural
une grande maison; des gens importants


L'Huillier, Monique. Advanced French Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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