Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition
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The most hands-on, practical workbook for learning to read, write and speak Spanish flawlessly
Practice, practice, practice—and improve your ability to read, write and speak Spanish as it’s really used. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition has everything you need to progress from beginning to advanced fluency, from clear explanations and practical examples to all the practice required for language mastery.
This updated, new edition boasts enhanced audio support online and via mobile app, ensuring you’ll speak the language as well as you write and speak it. In addition to recordings of the answers of more than 200 exercises in the book, the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app now includes audio for hundreds of example sentences throughout the book, along with text-to-speech pronunciation for all vocabulary flashcard lists.
Practice Makes Perfect Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition features:
• 350 exercises in 26 units covering all aspects of Spanish grammar, with explanations that include useful/helpful comparisons with English grammar
• Author has a proven teaching record, with extensive experience as an educator and curriculum developer
• Clear explanations and thorough exercises
• Recordings of exercise answers, and, new to this edition: example sentences and vocabulary lists
• Exercises for use either in the classroom use or for individual study
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781260463156 |
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| Publisher: | McGraw Hill LLC |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2020 |
| Edition description: | 4th ed. |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Sales rank: | 36,871 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
1 The present tense of regular verbs, irregular verbs, and verbs with spelling changes 1
Regular verbs in the present tense 2
When is the present tense used in Spanish? 4
Irregular verbs in the present tense 8
Verbs with spelling changes in the present tense 12
Dar, haber, hacer, and tener in expressions with a special meaning 14
2 The present tense of verbs with stem changes 19
Verbs ending in -ar and -er 19
Verbs ending in -ir 23
Verbs ending in -uir 25
3 Ser and estar 28
Similarities and differences between ser and estar 28
When is ser used in Spanish? 29
When is estar used in Spanish? 31
Adjectives that change their meaning when used with either ser or estar 33
Expressions with estar 34
4 The preterit tense 36
Regular verbs in the preterit 36
When is the preterit used in Spanish? 37
Verbs with spelling changes in the preterit 40
Stem-changing verbs in the preterit 43
Irregular verbs in the preterit 45
Verbs with a special meaning in the preterit 48
5 The imperfect tense 51
Regular verbs in the imperfect 51
Irregular verbs in the imperfect 53
When is the imperfect used in Spanish? 53
The imperfect and the preterit in the same sentence 58
6 More about the preterit and the imperfect 61
Summary and contrast of the preterit and the imperfect 61
Verbs with a special meaning: ponerse, volverse, and hacerse 67
7 The future and the conditional 69
The future tense 69
When is the future tense used in Spanish? 72
Other ways of expressing the future in Spanish 75
The conditional mood 76
When is the conditional used in Spanish? 79
Other uses of the conditional 80
8 Reflexive verbs and reflexive constructions 83
Reflexive verbs and pronouns 84
More reflexive verbs 85
Reflexive constructions with stem-changing and irregular verbs 86
The use of reflexive verbs in Spanish 87
Verbs that change meaning when used as reflexive verbs 88
The commands in reflexive constructions 90
The infinitive and present participle in reflexive constructions 91
Reflexive constructions in reciprocal actions 93
How to express to become in Spanish 94
The reflexive construction in other tenses 96
9 The progressive tenses 98
The forms of the present participle in regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs 98
Placement of reflexive pronouns and other object pronouns with the present participle 101
When is the present progressive used in Spanish? 102
The progressive forms in other tenses 103
Verbs of motion in progressive tenses 104
Present participle: Spanish compared to English 105
10 Compound tenses: the present perfect and the past perfect 107
The present perfect 107
Past participles ending in -ído and irregular past participles 109
When is the present perfect tense used in Spanish? 112
The past perfect or pluperfect 113
When is the past perfect used in Spanish? 115
Other compound tense forms: the preterit perfect 116
When is the preterit perfect tense used in Spanish? 116
Haber + a participle: the Spanish equivalent of the perfect infinitive 117
When is the infinitive of haber + a participle used in Spanish? 117
11 Compound tenses: the future perfect and the conditional perfect 119
The future perfect 119
When is the future perfect used in Spanish? 121
The conditional perfect 123
When is the conditional perfect used in Spanish? 125
12 The passive voice and passive constructions 129
The passive voice in Spanish 129
When is the passive voice used in Spanish? 131
The passive construction with the pronoun se 133
When is the passive construction with se used in Spanish? 133
Impersonal constructions used to substitute for passive constructions 135
13 The subjunctive mood: the present and the present perfect subjunctive tenses in noun clauses 137
The subjunctive mood: the present subjunctive 137
The present subjunctive 138
Verbs with spelling changes in the present subjunctive 140
Verbs with stem changes in the present subjunctive 141
Irregular verbs in the present indicative and in the present subjunctive 144
Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive 145
When is the present subjunctive used in Spanish? 146
Other uses of the present subjunctive 149
The present perfect subjunctive 152
When is the present perfect subjunctive used in Spanish? 152
14 More uses of the subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses 155
The subjunctive in adverb clauses 155
When is the subjunctive used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish? 155
Expressions that may or may not require the subjunctive 158
When is the subjunctive not used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish? 161
More uses of the subjunctive: the subjunctive in adjective clauses 162
When is the subjunctive used in adjective clauses? 163
Other uses of the subjunctive 166
15 The subjunctive mood past tenses: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive 170
The imperfect subjunctive 170
When is the imperfect subjunctive used in Spanish? 173
Other uses of the imperfect subjunctive 175
The pluperfect subjunctive 176
When is the pluperfect subjunctive used in Spanish? 177
Other uses of the pluperfect subjunctive 178
The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in contrary-to-fact conditional clauses 179
16 The commands 183
Formal or polite commands 184
When are formal commands used in Spanish? 187
Informal (tú) affirmative command forms 189
Tú negative command forms 191
Plural familiar (vosotros) affirmative command forms 192
Vosotros negative command forms 193
When are informal (tú) commands used in Spanish? 194
Commands and the position of reflexive and object pronouns 194
Other ways of expressing a command (nosotros) 196
17 Nouns and articles 199
Gender of nouns in Spanish: endings of nouns 199
Masculine nouns and their endings in Spanish 199
Feminine nouns and their endings in Spanish 201
Other endings to consider for the gender of nouns 202
Other nouns and their gender 204
Plural of nouns 208
Definite articles 210
When are definite articles used in Spanish? 211
More about the uses of definite articles in Spanish 213
When are definite articles omitted in Spanish? 214
Lo, the neuter article 215
Indefinite articles 217
When are indefinite articles used in Spanish? 218
When are indefinite articles not used in Spanish? 219
18 Adjectives 221
Gender and number of adjectives in Spanish 221
Where are adjectives placed in Spanish? 225
Other adjective forms used before nouns: the shortened forms 227
Other considerations about the position of adjectives 229
Words that function as adjectives 230
Comparatives and superlatives 231
Irregular comparative and superlative adjectives 234
Other comparisons 235
19 Personal pronouns 237
Subject pronouns 237
Uses of the subject pronouns 238
Pronouns as objects of prepositions 240
When are prepositional pronouns used in Spanish? 241
Direct object pronouns 242
When are direct object pronouns used in Spanish? 243
Indirect object pronouns 247
Where are indirect object pronouns placed? 248
Double object pronouns 252
How are double object pronouns used in Spanish? 252
The indirect object pronoun with gustar and other verbs 254
20 Relative pronouns 258
Que: When is the relative pronoun que used in Spanish? 259
Quien: When is the relative pronoun quien used in Spanish? 261
EI que and el cual: When are the relative pronouns el que and el cual and their forms used in Spanish? 263
Lo que and lo cual: When are the relative pronouns lo que and lo cual used in Spanish? 264
Relative pronouns after prepositions 266
Cuyo, cuya: When are the relative adjectives cuyo, cuya used in Spanish? 267
21 Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 268
Possessive adjectives and pronouns 268
Possessive adjective forms: the short forms and the long forms 268
When are the short and long forms of the possessive adjectives used in Spanish? 272
Possessive pronouns 273
Demonstrative adjectives 276
When are the different forms of the demonstrative adjectives used in Spanish? 277
Demonstrative pronouns 279
The neuter forms of the demonstrative pronouns 281
22 Adverbs 282
Adverb forms in Spanish 282
Compound adverbs 285
Other adverb forms: adverbial expressions 287
Adjectives and nouns used as adverbs 289
Comparisons with adverbs 290
When are adverbs used in Spanish? 291
23 Prepositions 292
Frequently used prepositions in Spanish 292
Relationships of commonly used prepositions and compound prepositions 296
The preposition a and the personal a 298
Uses of prepositions and their English equivalents 300
The uses of para and por 301
Por in common idiomatic expressions 304
Verbs that require the preposition a or de + an infinitive in Spanish 306
Verbs with other prepositions 307
Verbs that require a preposition in English but not in Spanish 308
24 Indefinite and negative words and expressions 310
Indefinite and negative words in Spanish 310
When are indefinite and negative words used in Spanish? 311
Other negative expressions 315
The conjunctions pero and sino and negative expressions 315
When are pero and sino used in Spanish? 316
25 Interrogative and exclamatory words 318
Interrogative words and expressions 318
Interrogative words in Spanish 318
Other uses of interrogative words and expressions 319
¿Para qué? ¿Por qué?: When are they used in Spanish? 321
Interrogative words and expressions in indirect questions 322
Exclamations 323
26 Numbers 326
Cardinal numbers 326
When do we use cardinal numbers? 328
Ordinal numbers 332
Other numbers: fractions and multiple numbers 334
Verb tables 337
Glossaries
Spanish-English glossary 345
English-Spanish glossary 354
Answer key 363
