Complete Spanish Grammar
Book - 2020
Build your confidence in communicating through mastery of Spanish grammar.
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New York :
McGraw-Hill
[2020]
- Language
- English
Spanish - Main Author
- Edition
- Premium fourth edition
- Item Description
- "Total language study program"--Cover.
Text in Spanish and English. - Physical Description
- xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBN
- 9781260463156
9781260463163
- Introduction
- 1. The present tense of regular verbs, irregular verbs, and verbs with spelling changes
- Regular verbs in the present tense
- When is the present tense used in Spanish?
- Irregular verbs in the present tense
- Verbs with spelling changes in the present tense
- Dar, haber, hacer, and tener in expressions with a special meaning
- 2. The present tense of verbs with stem changes
- Verbs ending in -ar and -er
- Verbs ending in -ir
- Verbs ending in -uir
- 3. Ser and estar
- Similarities and differences between ser and estar
- When is ser used in Spanish?
- When is estar used in Spanish?
- Adjectives that change their meaning when used with either ser or estar
- Expressions with estar
- 4. The preterit tense
- Regular verbs in the preterit
- When is the preterit used in Spanish?
- Verbs with spelling changes in the preterit
- Stem-changing verbs in the preterit
- Irregular verbs in the preterit
- Verbs with a special meaning in the preterit
- 5. The imperfect tense
- Regular verbs in the imperfect
- Irregular verbs in the imperfect
- When is the imperfect used in Spanish?
- The imperfect and the preterit in the same sentence
- 6. More about the preterit and the imperfect
- Summary and contrast of the preterit and the imperfect
- Verbs with a special meaning: ponerse, volverse, and hacerse
- 7. The future and the conditional
- The future tense
- When is the future tense used in Spanish?
- Other ways of expressing the future in Spanish
- The conditional mood
- When is the conditional used in Spanish?
- Other uses of the conditional
- 8. Reflexive verbs and reflexive constructions
- Reflexive verbs and pronouns
- More reflexive verbs
- Reflexive constructions with stem-changing and irregular verbs
- The use of reflexive verbs in Spanish
- Verbs that change meaning when used as reflexive verbs
- The commands in reflexive constructions
- The infinitive and present participle in reflexive constructions
- Reflexive constructions in reciprocal actions
- How to express to become in Spanish
- The reflexive construction in other tenses
- 9. The progressive tenses
- The forms of the present participle in regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs
- Placement of reflexive pronouns and other object pronouns with the present participle
- When is the present progressive used in Spanish?
- The progressive forms in other tenses
- Verbs of motion in progressive tenses
- Present participle: Spanish compared to English
- 10. Compound tenses: the present perfect and the past perfect
- The present perfect
- Past participles ending in -ído and irregular past participles
- When is the present perfect tense used in Spanish?
- The past perfect or pluperfect
- When is the past perfect used in Spanish?
- Other compound tense forms: the preterit perfect
- When is the preterit perfect tense used in Spanish?
- Haber + a participle: the Spanish equivalent of the perfect infinitive
- When is the infinitive of haber + a participle used in Spanish?
- 11. Compound tenses: the future perfect and the conditional perfect
- The future perfect
- When is the future perfect used in Spanish?
- The conditional perfect
- When is the conditional perfect used in Spanish?
- 12. The passive voice and passive constructions
- The passive voice in Spanish
- When is the passive voice used in Spanish?
- The passive construction with the pronoun se
- When is the passive construction with se used in Spanish?
- Impersonal constructions used to substitute for passive constructions
- 13. The subjunctive mood: the present and the present perfect subjunctive tenses in noun clauses
- The subjunctive mood: the present subjunctive
- The present subjunctive
- Verbs with spelling changes in the present subjunctive
- Verbs with stem changes in the present subjunctive
- Irregular verbs in the present indicative and in the present subjunctive
- Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive
- When is the present subjunctive used in Spanish?
- Other uses of the present subjunctive
- The present perfect subjunctive
- When is the present perfect subjunctive used in Spanish?
- 14. More uses of the subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses
- The subjunctive in adverb clauses
- When is the subjunctive used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?
- Expressions that may or may not require the subjunctive
- When is the subjunctive not used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?
- More uses of the subjunctive: the subjunctive in adjective clauses
- When is the subjunctive used in adjective clauses?
- Other uses of the subjunctive
- 15. The subjunctive mood past tenses: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive
- The imperfect subjunctive
- When is the imperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?
- Other uses of the imperfect subjunctive
- The pluperfect subjunctive
- When is the pluperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?
- Other uses of the pluperfect subjunctive
- The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in contrary-to-fact conditional clauses
- 16. The commands
- Formal or polite commands
- When are formal commands used in Spanish?
- Informal (tú) affirmative command forms
- Tú negative command forms
- Plural familiar (vosotros) affirmative command forms
- Vosotros negative command forms
- When are informal (tú) commands used in Spanish?
- Commands and the position of reflexive and object pronouns
- Other ways of expressing a command (nosotros)
- 17. Nouns and articles
- Gender of nouns in Spanish: endings of nouns
- Masculine nouns and their endings in Spanish
- Feminine nouns and their endings in Spanish
- Other endings to consider for the gender of nouns
- Other nouns and their gender
- Plural of nouns
- Definite articles
- When are definite articles used in Spanish?
- More about the uses of definite articles in Spanish
- When are definite articles omitted in Spanish?
- Lo, the neuter article
- Indefinite articles
- When are indefinite articles used in Spanish?
- When are indefinite articles not used in Spanish?
- 18. Adjectives
- Gender and number of adjectives in Spanish
- Where are adjectives placed in Spanish?
- Other adjective forms used before nouns: the shortened forms
- Other considerations about the position of adjectives
- Words that function as adjectives
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Irregular comparative and superlative adjectives
- Other comparisons
- 19. Personal pronouns
- Subject pronouns
- Uses of the subject pronouns
- Pronouns as objects of prepositions
- When are prepositional pronouns used in Spanish?
- Direct object pronouns
- When are direct object pronouns used in Spanish?
- Indirect object pronouns
- Where are indirect object pronouns placed?
- Double object pronouns
- How are double object pronouns used in Spanish?
- The indirect object pronoun with gustar and other verbs
- 20. Relative pronouns
- Que: When is the relative pronoun que used in Spanish?
- Quien: When is the relative pronoun quien used in Spanish?
- EI que and el cual: When are the relative pronouns el que and el cual and their forms used in Spanish?
- Lo que and lo cual: When are the relative pronouns lo que and lo cual used in Spanish?
- Relative pronouns after prepositions
- Cuyo, cuya: When are the relative adjectives cuyo, cuya used in Spanish?
- 21. Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns
- Possessive adjective forms: the short forms and the long forms
- When are the short and long forms of the possessive adjectives used in Spanish?
- Possessive pronouns
- Demonstrative adjectives
- When are the different forms of the demonstrative adjectives used in Spanish?
- Demonstrative pronouns
- The neuter forms of the demonstrative pronouns
- 22. Adverbs
- Adverb forms in Spanish
- Compound adverbs
- Other adverb forms: adverbial expressions
- Adjectives and nouns used as adverbs
- Comparisons with adverbs
- When are adverbs used in Spanish?
- 23. Prepositions
- Frequently used prepositions in Spanish
- Relationships of commonly used prepositions and compound prepositions
- The preposition a and the personal a
- Uses of prepositions and their English equivalents
- The uses of para and por
- Por in common idiomatic expressions
- Verbs that require the preposition a or de + an infinitive in Spanish
- Verbs with other prepositions
- Verbs that require a preposition in English but not in Spanish
- 24. Indefinite and negative words and expressions
- Indefinite and negative words in Spanish
- When are indefinite and negative words used in Spanish?
- Other negative expressions
- The conjunctions pero and sino and negative expressions
- When are pero and sino used in Spanish?
- 25. Interrogative and exclamatory words
- Interrogative words and expressions
- Interrogative words in Spanish
- Other uses of interrogative words and expressions
- ¿Para qué? ¿Por qué?: When are they used in Spanish?
- Interrogative words and expressions in indirect questions
- Exclamations
- 26. Numbers
- Cardinal numbers
- When do we use cardinal numbers?
- Ordinal numbers
- Other numbers: fractions and multiple numbers
- Verb tables
- Glossaries
- Spanish-English glossary
- English-Spanish glossary
- Answer key