ABSTRACT

Practising Italian Grammar offers a comprehensive set of varied exercises for developing a greater practical awareness of the language. It is designed as a companion volume to A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian by Maiden and Robustelli, but it can also be used on its own by anyone wishing to improve their proficiency in Italian. The workbook includes examples of authentic Italian from journalistic and literary extracts, and from colloquial usage. The exercises are graded in terms of difficulty. Level 1 - revision of essential points, Level 2 - intermediate exercises, Level 3 - advanced exercises.

A key to the exercises is provided making this workbook suitable for private study and classroom use.

chapter |7 pages

Spelling and pronunciation

chapter |12 pages

Nouns and adjectives

chapter |6 pages

The articles

chapter |4 pages

Demonstratives

chapter |10 pages

Personal pronouns

chapter |7 pages

Relative structures

chapter |5 pages

Interrogative structures

chapter |9 pages

Prepositions

chapter |5 pages

Numerals

chapter |10 pages

Forms of the verb

chapter |15 pages

Uses of the verb forms

chapter |3 pages

Negative constructions

chapter |4 pages

Word derivation

chapter |3 pages

Time expressions

chapter |3 pages

Forms of address