Full Description
For many years A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish.
Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramática de la lengua española', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.
Key features of this fifth edition include:
a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition
new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish
more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage
aclearer guidance to recommended usage
-advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules.
Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.
Contents
Preface to the fifth edition
Conventions, spelling and abbreviations
1. Gender of nouns
2. Plural of nouns
3. Articles
4. Adjectives
5. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
6. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
7. Neuter article and neuter pronouns
8. Possessive adjectives and pronouns
9. Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns
10. Numerals
11. Personal pronouns
12. Le/les and lo/la/los/las
13. Forms of Spanish verbs
14. Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms
15. Continuous forms of the verb
16. The subjunctive
17. The imperative
18. The infinitive
19. Participles
20. The gerund
21. Modal auxiliary verbs
22. Personal a
23. Negation
24. Interrogation and exclamations
25. Conditional sentences
26. Pronominal verbs
27. Verbs of becoming
28. Passive and impersonal sentences
29. Ser and estar
30. Existential sentences
31. Adverbs
32. Expressions of time
33. Conjunctions and discourse markers
34. Prepositions
35. Relative clauses and relative pronouns
36. Nominalizers and cleft sentences
37. Word order
38. Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes
39. Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division
Glossary of grammatical terms
Bibliography and sources
Index of English words
Index of Spanish words and grammatical points
