Full Description
This third edition of PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR offers you a wide variety of exercises that put Spanish grammar into practice so you can understand better how the language is used today.
Thoroughly updated, PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION includes:
a glossary that explains grammatical terms clearly, providing you with a useful reference guide to the tools of the language
level indicators with all exercises to help you progress at your own pace
translations for key words within the exercises so you can work without having to stop and refer to a dictionary
answers to all the exercises so you can use this book in class or at home
a range of exercise types that cater for different learning strategies to help build your confidence in Spanish.
With its broad variety of brand-new and revised exercises designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students, this third edition can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the new fifth edition of the widely acclaimed A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Nouns
2. Articles
3. Adjectives
4. Comparatives
5. Demonstratives
6. The neuter
7. Possessives
8. Numbers
9. Pronouns
10. Forms of verbs
11. Indicative usage
12. The imperative
13. The subjunctive
14. Reported speech
15. The syntax of verbal constructions
16. Non-finite forms of the verb
17. Modal auxiliaries
18. Negative constructions
19. Interrogation and exclamations
20. Pronomial verbs
21. The expression of 'becoming'
22. Passive
23. Ser, estar and haber
24. Adverbs
25. Expressions of time
26. Conjunctions
27. Prepositions
28. Relative pronouns
29. Nominalizers and cleft sentences
30. Word order
31. Affective suffixes
32. Spelling and punctuation
General exercises
Glossary of grammatical terms
Key to the exercises
