Practising Spanish Grammar - A Workbook, Third Edition

Christopher Pountain, Teresa de Carlos, Angela Howkins

Pracitising Spanish 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 the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin, but it can also be used on its own by anyone wishing to improve their proficiency in Spanish. Giving attention to both Peninsular and Latin American varieties of the language, the workbook includes examples of authentic Spanish from journalistic and literary extracts, and from colloquial usage. The exercises are graded in terms of difficulty as follows:

• Level 1 - basic drill for revision of essential points
• Level 2 - intermediate exercises covering standard usage
• Level 3 - advanced assignments and work on non-standard usage

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

• Accompanies the highly acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
• Provides varied exercises, graded into three ability levels (from basic to advanced)
• Covers Peninsular and Latin American Spanish
• Suitable for classroom study
• Vocabulary will be updated to reflect current use
• The cross references with the new reference grammar will be totally updated

Table of Contents:

• Nouns
• Articles
• Adjectives
• Comparatives
• Demonstratives
• The neuter
• Possessives
• Numbers
• Pronouns
• Forms of verbs
• Indicative usage
• The imperative
• The Subjunctive
• Reported speech
• The syntax of verbal constructions
• Non-finite forms of the verb
• Modal auxiliaries
• Negative constructions
• Interrogation and exclamations
• Ponominal verbs
• The expression of 'becoming'
• Passive
• Ser, Estar and Haber
• Adverbs
• Expressions of time
• Conjunctions
• Prepositions
• Relative pronouns and nominalizers
• Cleft sentences
• Word order
• Affective suffixes
• Spelling and punctuation
• General exercises
• Key to the exercises

Readership:

Undergraduate students of Spanish. A-level students of Spanish, adult self-learners.

About the Author(s):

Christopher Pountain is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Teressa de Carlos was formerly a Senior Language Teaching Officer at the University of Cambridge. Angela Howkins is a Lecturer in Spanish at Dundee College.