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Nissenberg, Gilda. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Third Edition

Authors: Gilda Nissenberg

Published:  February 2016 Pages: 416

eISBN: 9781259584206 | ISBN: 9781259584190
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • 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 subjunctiv e
  • The pluperfect subjunctive
  • When is the pluperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?
  • Other uses of the pluperfect subjunctiv e
  • 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 adjectiv es
  • 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?
  • El 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, cuy 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