Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar - Brossura

Danesi, Marcel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071603670 ISBN 13: 9780071603676

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

Build up your Italian grammar skills and communicate with ease

The only way to boost your confidence in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. From the present tense of regular verbs to direct object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all aspects of Italian grammar that you need to master.

Focusing on the practical aspects of Italian as it's really spoken, each unit of Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar features clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and lots of engaging exercises.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar makes mastering grammar easy with:

• Clear, down-to-earth, easy-to-follow explanations that make even the most complex principles easy to understand
• Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point
• Dozens of exercises in formats suited to every learning style
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary used throughout
• A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks

With help from this book, you can effortlessly use:
Possessive adjectives · Relative pronouns · Gerunds · Expressions of time · The passive and the impersonal Si * The subjunctive mood * Question words

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Contenuti

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Nouns and titles
Common nouns
Gender patterns
Spelling adjustments in the plural
Mass nouns
Proper noum=ns and titles

2. More about nouns
More gender patterns
Nouns of Greek orgin
Other types of nouns
Altered nouns
Compound nouns

3. Articles
The indefinite article
The definite article
Uses of the definite article
4. Adjectives
Descriptive adjectives
Invariable adjectives
Position
Form-changing adjectives
Comparison of adjectives

5. Pronouns
Subject pronouns
Object pronouns
Stressed pronouns
Other pronouns

6. More pronouns
Object pronouns with compound tenses
Double pronouns
Attached pronouns

7. Demostrative
The demostrative of nearness
The dmonstrative of farness
Demonstrative pronouns
Indicating words and expressions

8. Possessives
Possessive adjective forms
The third -person forms
Possessives with kinship nouns
Possessive pronouns

9. Partitives
Partitives with count nouns
Alternative forms
Partitives with mass nouns
Adjectives indicating quantity

10. Present tenses
The present indicative of regular verbs
Irregualar verbs in the present indicative
The present subjunctive of regular verbs
Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive
Special uses of the subjunctive

11. Past tenses
The present perfect
Irregular past participles
The past subjunctive
The past absolute
Irregular verbs in the past absolute

12. The imperfect and pluperfect tenses
The imperfect indicative
The imperfect subjunctive
The pluperfect tenses

13. The progressive tenses
The gerund
The present progressive tenses
The imperfect progressive tenses

14. The future and conditional tenses
The future
the future perfect
The conditional (present and past)
Hypothetical sentences

15. The imperative
Regular forms of the imperative
The negative imperative
Irregular forms

16. Reflexive verbs
Forms
Compound tenses
Imperative forms

17. Prepositions and adverbs
Preopsitional contractions
Uses of the prepositions
Adverbs of manner
Other kinds of adverbs

18. Sentences
Interrogative sentences
Question words
Negative sentences
Objects
Conjunctions and relative pronouns
The ordinal numbers
Numerical expressions
Dates

20. Miscellaneous topics
The verb piacere The passive and the impersonal si Other topicsIrregular verb tables
Italian - English glossary
English - Italian glossary
Answer key

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071603670
• ISBN 13: 9780071603676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Italiano
• Numero di pagine: 287