ABSTRACT

This third edition of PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR offers you a wide variety of exercises that put Spanish grammar into practice so you can understand better how the language is used today.

Thoroughly updated, PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION includes:

  • a glossary that explains grammatical terms clearly, providing you with a useful reference guide to the tools of the language
  • level indicators with all exercises to help you progress at your own pace
  • translations for key words within the exercises so you can work without having to stop and refer to a dictionary
  • answers to all the exercises so you can use this book in class or at home
  • a range of exercise types that cater for different learning strategies to help build your confidence in Spanish.

    With its broad variety of brand-new and revised exercises designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students, this third edition can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the new fifth edition of the widely acclaimed A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.

  • chapter 1|5 pages

    Nouns

    chapter 2|5 pages

    Articles

    chapter 3|5 pages

    Adjectives

    chapter 4|6 pages

    Comparatives

    part 5|2 pages

    Demonstratives

    chapter 7|3 pages

    Possessives

    chapter 9|11 pages

    Pronouns

    chapter 10|7 pages

    Forms of verbs 10.1 Regular verbs 1/2

    chapter 11|11 pages

    Indicative usage 11.1 The present tense 2

    chapter 12|5 pages

    The imperative

    chapter 13|15 pages

    The subjunctive

    part 14|2 pages

    Reported speech 14.1 Sequence of tenses 2

    chapter 15|4 pages

    The syntax of verbal constructions

    chapter 16|8 pages

    Non-finite forms of the verb

    chapter 17|4 pages

    Modal auxiliaries

    chapter 18|3 pages

    Negative constructions

    chapter 19|3 pages

    Interrogation and exclamations

    chapter 20|7 pages

    Pronominal verbs

    part 21|2 pages

    The expression of ‘becoming’ 21.1 Verbs expressing the notion of ‘becoming’ 2

    chapter 22|4 pages

    Passive

    chapter 23|6 pages

    Ser, estar and haber

    chapter 24|4 pages

    Adverbs

    chapter 26|6 pages

    Conjunctions

    chapter 27|7 pages

    Prepositions

    chapter 29|3 pages

    Nominalizers and cleft sentences

    chapter 30|3 pages

    Word order

    chapter 31|3 pages

    Affective suffixes

    chapter 32|3 pages

    Spelling and punctuation 32.1 Accents 1/2

    chapter 33|2 pages

    General exercises 33.1 Cloze test (1) 2