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Richmond, Dorothy. Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Vocabulary, Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2017.

Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Vocabulary, Third Edition

Authors: Dorothy Richmond

Published:  December 2017

eISBN: 9781260026238 | ISBN: 9781260026221
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preliminary matters
  • The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation
  • Stress and accent marks
  • Plurals
  • Diphthongs
  • Punctuation marks
  • Cognates
  • Basic greetings
  • Highly useful data
  • 1 The basics
  • Definite articles
  • Indefinite articles
  • Yo tengo..., yo quiero
  • Está, the “is” of location
  • The use of hay
  • Vocabulary building The diminutive suffixes -ito and -ita
  • Standard orthographic changes
  • Cracking the gender code
  • Vocabulary
  • 2 Regular verbs
  • Conjugation of regular -ar verbs
  • Deleting the understood subject pronoun
  • Conjugation of regular -er verbs
  • Qualitative adjectives
  • Conjugation of regular -ir verbs
  • Vocabulary building The suffix -ería
  • Vocabulary
  • 3 Asking questions
  • Simple questions
  • Negative responses
  • Complex questions
  • Negative questions
  • Questions of quantity and limitation
  • The contractions al and del
  • Street addresses
  • Vocabulary building The suffixes -ero and -era
  • Vocabulary
  • 4 Irregular verbs
  • Jugar (to play [a game])
  • Poder (to be able to) and querer (to want)
  • Tener (to have)
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Ir, salir, and venir: three irregular verbs of motion
  • Hacer (to do, make)
  • The five senses: oír (to hear), oler (to smell), probar (to taste), ver (to see), tocar (to touch)
  • Direct object pronouns
  • The personal a
  • Poner (to put, place)
  • Dar (to give) and decir (to say, tell)
  • Indirect object pronouns
  • Vocabulary building The suffixes -era and -ero
  • Vocabulary
  • 5 The verbs ser and estar (to be)
  • Conjugation of ser and estar
  • Uses of estar
  • Preposition + infinitive
  • Demonstrative adjectives
  • Uses of ser
  • Possessive pronouns
  • Comparisons with ser and estar
  • Neuter demonstrative pronouns
  • Vocabulary building Suffixes that denote origin and/or nationality
  • Vocabulary
  • 6 Saber and conocer
  • Saber and conocer (to know)
  • Adding object pronouns to the infinitive
  • Pedir and preguntar (to ask)
  • Sacar, tomar, llevar, quitar (to take)
  • Completar, terminar, cumplir, acabar (de) (to complete, finish, or end)
  • Formation of adverbs
  • Vocabulary building Compound words
  • Vocabulary
  • 7 Stem-changing verbs
  • Stem-changing verbs
  • Vocabulary building The suffix -ismo
  • Vocabulary building The suffix -ista
  • Weights and measures
  • Vocabulary building The suffix -ado/-ada
  • Vocabulary
  • 8 Reflexive verbs
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Ponerse, hacerse, volverse a, convertirse en, llegar a ser (to become)
  • Gustar
  • Verbs that take an indirect object pronoun
  • Doler
  • Vocabulary building The medical suffixes -itis and -osis
  • Vocabulary
  • 9 Para and por
  • Para and por
  • Vocabulary building The suffix -ario
  • Reciprocal pronouns
  • Vocabulary
  • 10 The passive voice and negatives
  • The passive voice
  • Negatives
  • Vocabulary
  • Answer key
  • Subject and vocabulary index