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Practising Spanish Grammar, Third Edition

Angela Howkins, Christopher Pountain, Teresa de Carlos


Paperback
£15.99

ISBN: 9781444137705
Published: 27/05/2011
Extent: 256 pages
Illustrations: 0


 
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Summary:
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.


    • A glossary that explains grammatical terms clearly, providing you with a useful reference guide to the tools of Spanish
    • 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 wide range of exercise types that cater for different learning strategies to help build your confidence in Spanish
    • Can be used independently or in conjunction with A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH 5e by John Butt & Carmen Benjamin (Hodder Education, May 2011)
    • Thoroughly updated throughout with topical Spanish terms and more 'techy' words, thus helping you to learn contemporary Spanish and speak it as it is spoken today
    • Written by authors, including a native Spanish speaker, who have extensive experience teaching and speaking Spanish

    • CEFR Categorisation: B2 - C1


    Table of 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


    About the Author(s):
    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.


    Readership:
    Undergraduates & intermediate learners of Spanish


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