Practising Spanish Grammar

3. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4441-3770-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Spanisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Practising Grammar Workbooks

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 languagelevel 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 dictionaryanswers to all the exercises so you can use this book in class or at homea 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howkins, Angela

Pountain, Christopher

de Carlos, Teresa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

ANGELA HOWKINS is a former Lecturer in Spanish at Dundee College, Scotland.CHRISTOPHER POUNTAIN is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary's College, University of London.TERESA DE CARLOS is a native speaker of Spanish and a former Senior Language Teaching Officer at the University of Cambridge.