ABSTRACT

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is widely recognised as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish. It provides teachers and students of Spanish with a comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of the Spanish currently used in Spain and Latin America.

This new edition has been carefully revised and updated, and its explanations have been checked against the findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española and other new works in the field. Many new Peninsular and Latin American examples have been included, the English text has been thoroughly revised and in many places expanded or clarified. A glossary of grammatical terms has also been included. As a result this new version of 'B & B' should now be invaluable to an even wider readership ranging from intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.

A Workbook is available for use with A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 4th edition;
Practising Spanish Grammar by Christopher J Pountain and Teresa de Carlos.
ISBN 0340 66223 9

chapter 1|14 pages

Gender of nouns

chapter 2|10 pages

Plural of nouns

chapter 3|22 pages

Articles

chapter 4|22 pages

Adjectives

chapter 5|10 pages

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

chapter 6|6 pages

Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns

chapter 7|8 pages

Neuter article and neuter pronouns

chapter 8|8 pages

Possessive adjectives and pronouns

chapter 9|16 pages

Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns

chapter 10|12 pages

Numerals

chapter 11|26 pages

Personal pronouns

chapter 12|14 pages

Le/les and lo/la/los/las

chapter 13|36 pages

Forms of verbs

chapter 15|8 pages

Continuous forms of the verb

chapter 16|42 pages

The subjunctive

chapter 17|10 pages

The imperative

chapter 18|12 pages

The infinitive

chapter 19|6 pages

Participles

chapter 20|10 pages

The gerund

chapter 21|8 pages

Modal auxiliary verbs

chapter 22|8 pages

Personal a

chapter 23|12 pages

Negation

chapter 24|8 pages

Interrogation and exclamations

chapter 25|8 pages

Conditional sentences

chapter 26|26 pages

Pronominal verbs

chapter 27|6 pages

Verbs of becoming

chapter 28|18 pages

Passive and impersonal sentences

chapter 29|10 pages

Ser and estar

chapter 30|4 pages

Existential sentences

chapter 31|20 pages

Adverbs

chapter 32|14 pages

Expressions of time

chapter 33|18 pages

Conjunctions and connectors

chapter 34|32 pages

Prepositions

chapter 35|12 pages

Relative clauses and relative pronouns

chapter 36|8 pages

Nominalizers and cleft sentences

chapter 37|12 pages

Word order