ABSTRACT

For many years A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish.

Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramática de la lengua española', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.

Key features of this fifth edition include:

  • a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition
  • new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish
  • more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage
  • aclearer guidance to recommended usage
    -advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules.
    Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.

  • chapter 1|15 pages

    Gender of nouns

    chapter 2|11 pages

    Plural of nouns

    chapter 3|22 pages

    Articles

    chapter 4|22 pages

    Adjectives

    chapter 5|10 pages

    Comparison of adjectives and ad verbs

    chapter 6|6 pages

    Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns

    chapter 7|7 pages

    Neuter article and neuter pronouns

    chapter 8|8 pages

    Possessive adjectives and pronouns

    chapter 9|17 pages

    Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns

    chapter 10|11 pages

    Numerals

    chapter 11|24 pages

    Personal pronouns

    chapter 12|12 pages

    Le/les and lo/la/los/las

    chapter 13|36 pages

    Forms of Spanish verbs

    chapter 15|8 pages

    Continuous forms of the verb

    chapter 16|42 pages

    The subjunctive

    chapter 17|9 pages

    The imperative

    chapter 18|12 pages

    The infi nitive

    chapter 19|5 pages

    Participles

    chapter 20|11 pages

    The gerund

    chapter 21|8 pages

    Modal auxiliary verbs

    chapter 22|8 pages

    Personal a

    chapter 23|11 pages

    Negation

    chapter 24|7 pages

    Interrogation and exclamations

    chapter 25|7 pages

    Conditional sentences

    chapter 26|25 pages

    Pronominal verbs

    chapter 27|5 pages

    Verbs of becoming

    chapter 28|17 pages

    Passive and impersonal sentences

    chapter 29|9 pages

    Ser and estar

    chapter 30|4 pages

    Existential sentences

    chapter 31|19 pages

    Adverbs

    chapter 32|13 pages

    Expressions of time

    chapter 33|17 pages

    Conjunctions and discourse markers

    chapter 34|32 pages

    Prepositions

    chapter 35|11 pages

    Relative clauses and relative pronouns

    chapter 36|7 pages

    Nominalizers and cleft sentences

    chapter 37|11 pages

    Word order