Full Description
Intermediate Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible intermediate reference grammar and related exercises in one volume that covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their second year of learning Swedish. The book follows on naturally from and complements its companion volume, Basic Swedish.
Each of the 26 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow.
The book presents the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text which outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and, in nearly all cases, exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit.
Features include:
• clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and English
• vocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevance
• cross-references to other units
• over 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answers.
The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by intermediate students and those who have grasped the basics of grammar and vocabulary.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Intonation, sentence stress, word stress and accent
Pronunciation, assimilation; 'French' g- and j-; spelling of words in -m, -n
Nouns, article use
Nouns, irregular plural, plurals in -er or -ar?; count and non-count, collective
Adjectives, definite declension Types 3, 4
Adjectival nouns; nationality words
Pronouns, reflexive possessives hans/sin
Verbs, irregular weak verbs, r-stem verbs
Verbs, strong verbs, minor series
Verbs, use of tenses
The infinitive in Swedish and English
Verbs, transitive, intransitive and reflexive
Verbs, past participles and the passive, position of passive agents
Time expressions prepositions
Pronouns, interrogative, relative and determinative
Translating 'that'
Translating the verb 'to be' and some other English verbs
Adverbs, amplifiers and ju, nog, väl, nämligen
Preposition or no preposition in Swedish or English, translating 'of'
Pronouns and adverbs in main clauses and sub clauses: ingen/inte någon
Present participles
Particle verbs
Word order, subordinate clauses with main clause order, main clauses with sub clause order
Word order, unstressed object pronouns
Word order, duplication, emphasis and ellipsis
Word formation
Diderichsen's Sentence Model
Key to Exercises
Glossary of grammatical terms
