Synopses & Reviews
A good grasp of grammar enables the foreign-language learner to build skill and confidence in communication. Here's the "ultimate," painless way for intermediate and advanced learners to brush up on the rules. Each grammatical concept is explained and then illustrated with lively sentence examples; extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation.
About the Author
Ronni Gordon, Ph.D., is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, and history. David Stillman, Ph.D., teaches Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew at The College of New Jersey.
Table of Contents
Part One: Verbs - Forms and Uses
1. The present tense
2. Ser and estar
3. Stem-changing verbs and verbs with spelling changes
4. The preterit tense
5. The imperfect tense
6. The future and conditional tenses
7. Reflective verbs
8. Passive constructions
9. The perfect tenses
10. The gerund and the progressive tenses
11. The subjunctive in noun clauses: present and present perfect subjective
12. The imperfect subjective and past perfect subjective conditional sentences
13. The subjective adverb and adjective clauses
14. Commands
15. The infinitive
Part Two: Nouns and Their Modifiers; Pronouns
16. Nouns and articles
17. Adjectives
18. Demonstratives and possessives
19. Personal pronouns: subject, object, prepositional
20. Relative pronouns
Part Three: Other Elements of the Sentence
21. Adverbs
22. Prepositions
23. Interrogative words and question formation
24. Negative and indefinite words
25. Numbers; dates; time
Part Four: Idiomatic Usage
26. Idioms, expressions, and proverbs
27. Word formation and diminutives
28. ¡Ojo! Common errors and pitfalls
Verb Charts
Answers
Index