Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition

Name: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition
Author: Gilda Nissenberg
ISBN: 9781260463156

by Gilda Nissenberg

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Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition

by Gilda Nissenberg

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Build Your Confidence in Communicating Through Mastery of Spanish Grammar, Effective communication in another language comes from practice, practice, practice. And this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all of the aspects of Spanish grammar that you need to master, followed by numerous exercises that allow you to put your language skills into use. Focused on the practical aspects of Spanish as it's really spoken, each chapter of Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar features clear explanations and numerous realistic examples. Dozens of varied exercises will build your understanding of the Spanish language, while new vocabulary is introduced within the exercises and in convenient Vocabulario panels. This premium fourth edition is accompanied by audio recordings and flashcards, available online and via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar Provides: Clear explanations that make even the most complex principles easy to understand, More than 400 varied exercises with detailed answer key, Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point, Practical, high-frequency vocabulary throughout, Streaming audio of the answers to more than 200 exercises, via app and online, NEW: native-speaker recordings of hundreds of model sentences and key verb conjugations, This book will help you master: Regular, stem-changing, and irregular present tense verbs, When to use ser, and when estar is needed, Reflexive verbs and constructions, The imperfect versus the preterit, Verbs of motion in progressive tenses, Formation of tenses in the subjunctive mood, Relative pronouns: que, quien, el que, cuyo, The various uses of para and por, Exclamations, numbers, and more Book jacket.

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Introduction	p. xiii
The present tense of regular verbs, irregular verbs, and verbs with spelling changes	p. 1
Regular verbs in the present tense	p. 2
When is the present tense used in Spanish?	p. 4
Irregular verbs in the present tense	p. 8
Verbs with spelling changes in the present tense	p. 12
Dar, haber, hacer, and tener in expressions with a special meaning	p. 14
The present tense of verbs with stem changes	p. 19
Verbs ending in -ar and -er	p. 19
Verbs ending in -ir	p. 23
Verbs ending in -uir	p. 25
Ser and estar	p. 28
Similarities and differences between ser and estar	p. 28
When is ser used in Spanish?	p. 29
When is estar used in Spanish?	p. 31
Adjectives that change their meaning when used with either ser or estar	p. 33
Expressions with estar	p. 34
The preterit tense	p. 36
Regular verbs in the preterit	p. 36
When is the preterit used in Spanish?	p. 37
Verbs with spelling changes in the preterit	p. 40
Stem-changing verbs in the preterit	p. 43
Irregular verbs in the preterit	p. 45
Verbs with a special meaning in the preterit	p. 48
The imperfect tense	p. 51
Regular verbs in the imperfect	p. 51
Irregular verbs in the imperfect	p. 53
When is the imperfect used in Spanish?	p. 53
The imperfect and the preterit in the same sentence	p. 58
More about the preterit and the imperfect	p. 61
Summary and contrast of the preterit and the imperfect	p. 61
Verbs with a special meaning: ponerse, volverse, and hacerse	p. 67
The future and the conditional	p. 69
The future tense	p. 69
When is the future tense used in Spanish?	p. 72
Other ways of expressing the future in Spanish	p. 75
The conditional mood	p. 76
When is the conditional used in Spanish?	p. 79
Other uses of the conditional	p. 80
Reflexive verbs and reflexive constructions	p. 83
Reflexive verbs and pronouns	p. 84
More reflexive verbs	p. 85
Reflexive constructions with stem-changing and irregular verbs	p. 86
The use of reflexive verbs in Spanish	p. 87
Verbs that change meaning when used as reflexive verbs	p. 88
The commands in reflexive constructions	p. 90
The infinitive and present participle in reflexive constructions	p. 91
Reflexive constructions in reciprocal actions	p. 93
How to express to become in Spanish	p. 94
The reflexive construction in other tenses	p. 96
The progressive tenses	p. 98
The forms of the present participle in regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs	p. 98
Placement of reflexive pronouns and other object pronouns with the present participle	p. 101
When is the present progressive used in Spanish?	p. 102
The progressive forms in other tenses	p. 103
Verbs of motion in progressive tenses	p. 104
Present participle: Spanish compared to English	p. 105
Compound tenses: the present perfect and the past perfect	p. 107
The present perfect	p. 107
Past participles ending in -ído and irregular past participles	p. 109
When is the present perfect tense used in Spanish?	p. 112
The past perfect or pluperfect	p. 113
When is the past perfect used in Spanish?	p. 115
Other compound tense forms: the preterit perfect	p. 116
When is the preterit perfect tense used in Spanish?	p. 116
Haber + a participle: the Spanish equivalent of the perfect infinitive	p. 117
When is the infinitive of haber + a participle used in Spanish?	p. 117
Compound tenses: the future perfect and the conditional perfect	p. 119
The future perfect	p. 119
When is the future perfect used in Spanish?	p. 121
The conditional perfect	p. 123
When is the conditional perfect used in Spanish?	p. 125
The passive voice and passive constructions	p. 129
The passive voice in Spanish	p. 129
When is the passive voice used in Spanish?	p. 131
The passive construction with the pronoun se	p. 133
When is the passive construction with se used in Spanish?	p. 133
Impersonal constructions used to substitute for passive constructions	p. 135
The subjunctive mood: the present and the present perfect subjunctive tenses in noun clauses	p. 137
The subjunctive mood: the present subjunctive	p. 137
The present subjunctive	p. 138
Verbs with spelling changes in the present subjunctive	p. 140
Verbs with stem changes in the present subjunctive	p. 141
Irregular verbs in the present indicative and in the present subjunctive	p. 144
Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive	p. 145
When is the present subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 146
Other uses of the present subjunctive	p. 149
The present perfect subjunctive	p. 152
When is the present perfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 152
More uses of the subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses	p. 155
The subjunctive in adverb clauses	p. 155
When is the subjunctive used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?	p. 155
Expressions that may or may not require the subjunctive	p. 158
When is the subjunctive not used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?	p. 161
More uses of the subjunctive: the subjunctive in adjective clauses	p. 162
When is the subjunctive used in adjective clauses?	p. 163
Other uses of the subjunctive	p. 166
The subjunctive mood past tenses: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive	p. 170
The imperfect subjunctive	p. 170
When is the imperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 173
Other uses of the imperfect subjunctive	p. 175
The pluperfect subjunctive	p. 176
When is the pluperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 177
Other uses of the pluperfect subjunctive	p. 178
The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in contrary-to-fact conditional clauses	p. 179
The commands	p. 183
Formal or polite commands	p. 184
When are formal commands used in Spanish?	p. 187
Informal (tú) affirmative command forms	p. 189
Tú negative command forms	p. 191
Plural familiar (vosotros) affirmative command forms	p. 192
Vosotros negative command forms	p. 193
When are informal (tú) commands used in Spanish?	p. 194
Commands and the position of reflexive and object pronouns	p. 194
Other ways of expressing a command (nosotros)	p. 196
Nouns and articles	p. 199
Gender of nouns in Spanish: endings of nouns	p. 199
Masculine nouns and their endings in Spanish	p. 199
Feminine nouns and their endings in Spanish	p. 201
Other endings to consider for the gender of nouns	p. 202
Other nouns and their gender	p. 204
Plural of nouns	p. 208
Definite articles	p. 210
When are definite articles used in Spanish?	p. 211
More about the uses of definite articles in Spanish	p. 213
When are definite articles omitted in Spanish?	p. 214
Lo, the neuter article	p. 215
Indefinite articles	p. 217
When are indefinite articles used in Spanish?	p. 218
When are indefinite articles not used in Spanish?	p. 219
Adjectives	p. 221
Gender and number of adjectives in Spanish	p. 221
Where are adjectives placed in Spanish?	p. 225
Other adjective forms used before nouns: the shortened forms	p. 227
Other considerations about the position of adjectives	p. 229
Words that function as adjectives	p. 230
Comparatives and superlatives	p. 231
Irregular comparative and superlative adjectives	p. 234
Other comparisons	p. 235
Personal pronouns	p. 237
Subject pronouns	p. 237
Uses of the subject pronouns	p. 238
Pronouns as objects of prepositions	p. 240
When are prepositional pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 241
Direct object pronouns	p. 242
When are direct object pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 243
Indirect object pronouns	p. 247
Where are indirect object pronouns placed?	p. 248
Double object pronouns	p. 252
How are double object pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 252
The indirect object pronoun with gustar and other verbs	p. 254
Relative pronouns	p. 258
Que: When is the relative pronoun que used in Spanish?	p. 259
Quien: When is the relative pronoun quien used in Spanish?	p. 261
EI que and el cual: When are the relative pronouns el que and el cual and their forms used in Spanish?	p. 263
Lo que and lo cual: When are the relative pronouns lo que and lo cual used in Spanish?	p. 264
Relative pronouns after prepositions	p. 266
Cuyo, cuya: When are the relative adjectives cuyo, cuya used in Spanish?	p. 267
Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns	p. 268
Possessive adjectives and pronouns	p. 268
Possessive adjective forms: the short forms and the long forms	p. 268
When are the short and long forms of the possessive adjectives used in Spanish?	p. 272
Possessive pronouns	p. 273
Demonstrative adjectives	p. 276
When are the different forms of the demonstrative adjectives used in Spanish?	p. 277
Demonstrative pronouns	p. 279
The neuter forms of the demonstrative pronouns	p. 281
Adverbs	p. 282
Adverb forms in Spanish	p. 282
Compound adverbs	p. 285
Other adverb forms: adverbial expressions	p. 287
Adjectives and nouns used as adverbs	p. 289
Comparisons with adverbs	p. 290
When are adverbs used in Spanish?	p. 291
Prepositions	p. 292
Frequently used prepositions in Spanish	p. 292
Relationships of commonly used prepositions and compound prepositions	p. 296
The preposition a and the personal a	p. 298
Uses of prepositions and their English equivalents	p. 300
The uses of para and por	p. 301
Por in common idiomatic expressions	p. 304
Verbs that require the preposition a or de + an infinitive in Spanish	p. 306
Verbs with other prepositions	p. 307
Verbs that require a preposition in English but not in Spanish	p. 308
Indefinite and negative words and expressions	p. 310
Indefinite and negative words in Spanish	p. 310
When are indefinite and negative words used in Spanish?	p. 311
Other negative expressions	p. 315
The conjunctions pero and sino and negative expressions	p. 315
When are pero and sino used in Spanish?	p. 316
Interrogative and exclamatory words	p. 318
Interrogative words and expressions	p. 318
Interrogative words in Spanish	p. 318
Other uses of interrogative words and expressions	p. 319
¿Para qué? ¿Por qué?: When are they used in Spanish?	p. 321
Interrogative words and expressions in indirect questions	p. 322
Exclamations	p. 323
Numbers	p. 326
Cardinal numbers	p. 326
When do we use cardinal numbers?	p. 328
Ordinal numbers	p. 332
Other numbers: fractions and multiple numbers	p. 334
Verb tables	p. 337
Glossaries
Spanish-English glossary	p. 345
English-Spanish glossary	p. 354
Answer key	p. 363
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Introduction	p. xiii
The present tense of regular verbs, irregular verbs, and verbs with spelling changes	p. 1
Regular verbs in the present tense	p. 2
When is the present tense used in Spanish?	p. 4
Irregular verbs in the present tense	p. 8
Verbs with spelling changes in the present tense	p. 12
Dar, haber, hacer, and tener in expressions with a special meaning	p. 14
The present tense of verbs with stem changes	p. 19
Verbs ending in -ar and -er	p. 19
Verbs ending in -ir	p. 23
Verbs ending in -uir	p. 25
Ser and estar	p. 28
Similarities and differences between ser and estar	p. 28
When is ser used in Spanish?	p. 29
When is estar used in Spanish?	p. 31
Adjectives that change their meaning when used with either ser or estar	p. 33
Expressions with estar	p. 34
The preterit tense	p. 36
Regular verbs in the preterit	p. 36
When is the preterit used in Spanish?	p. 37
Verbs with spelling changes in the preterit	p. 40
Stem-changing verbs in the preterit	p. 43
Irregular verbs in the preterit	p. 45
Verbs with a special meaning in the preterit	p. 48
The imperfect tense	p. 51
Regular verbs in the imperfect	p. 51
Irregular verbs in the imperfect	p. 53
When is the imperfect used in Spanish?	p. 53
The imperfect and the preterit in the same sentence	p. 58
More about the preterit and the imperfect	p. 61
Summary and contrast of the preterit and the imperfect	p. 61
Verbs with a special meaning: ponerse, volverse, and hacerse	p. 67
The future and the conditional	p. 69
The future tense	p. 69
When is the future tense used in Spanish?	p. 72
Other ways of expressing the future in Spanish	p. 75
The conditional mood	p. 76
When is the conditional used in Spanish?	p. 79
Other uses of the conditional	p. 80
Reflexive verbs and reflexive constructions	p. 83
Reflexive verbs and pronouns	p. 84
More reflexive verbs	p. 85
Reflexive constructions with stem-changing and irregular verbs	p. 86
The use of reflexive verbs in Spanish	p. 87
Verbs that change meaning when used as reflexive verbs	p. 88
The commands in reflexive constructions	p. 90
The infinitive and present participle in reflexive constructions	p. 91
Reflexive constructions in reciprocal actions	p. 93
How to express to become in Spanish	p. 94
The reflexive construction in other tenses	p. 96
The progressive tenses	p. 98
The forms of the present participle in regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs	p. 98
Placement of reflexive pronouns and other object pronouns with the present participle	p. 101
When is the present progressive used in Spanish?	p. 102
The progressive forms in other tenses	p. 103
Verbs of motion in progressive tenses	p. 104
Present participle: Spanish compared to English	p. 105
Compound tenses: the present perfect and the past perfect	p. 107
The present perfect	p. 107
Past participles ending in -ído and irregular past participles	p. 109
When is the present perfect tense used in Spanish?	p. 112
The past perfect or pluperfect	p. 113
When is the past perfect used in Spanish?	p. 115
Other compound tense forms: the preterit perfect	p. 116
When is the preterit perfect tense used in Spanish?	p. 116
Haber + a participle: the Spanish equivalent of the perfect infinitive	p. 117
When is the infinitive of haber + a participle used in Spanish?	p. 117
Compound tenses: the future perfect and the conditional perfect	p. 119
The future perfect	p. 119
When is the future perfect used in Spanish?	p. 121
The conditional perfect	p. 123
When is the conditional perfect used in Spanish?	p. 125
The passive voice and passive constructions	p. 129
The passive voice in Spanish	p. 129
When is the passive voice used in Spanish?	p. 131
The passive construction with the pronoun se	p. 133
When is the passive construction with se used in Spanish?	p. 133
Impersonal constructions used to substitute for passive constructions	p. 135
The subjunctive mood: the present and the present perfect subjunctive tenses in noun clauses	p. 137
The subjunctive mood: the present subjunctive	p. 137
The present subjunctive	p. 138
Verbs with spelling changes in the present subjunctive	p. 140
Verbs with stem changes in the present subjunctive	p. 141
Irregular verbs in the present indicative and in the present subjunctive	p. 144
Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive	p. 145
When is the present subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 146
Other uses of the present subjunctive	p. 149
The present perfect subjunctive	p. 152
When is the present perfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 152
More uses of the subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses	p. 155
The subjunctive in adverb clauses	p. 155
When is the subjunctive used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?	p. 155
Expressions that may or may not require the subjunctive	p. 158
When is the subjunctive not used in dependent adverb clauses in Spanish?	p. 161
More uses of the subjunctive: the subjunctive in adjective clauses	p. 162
When is the subjunctive used in adjective clauses?	p. 163
Other uses of the subjunctive	p. 166
The subjunctive mood past tenses: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive	p. 170
The imperfect subjunctive	p. 170
When is the imperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 173
Other uses of the imperfect subjunctive	p. 175
The pluperfect subjunctive	p. 176
When is the pluperfect subjunctive used in Spanish?	p. 177
Other uses of the pluperfect subjunctive	p. 178
The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in contrary-to-fact conditional clauses	p. 179
The commands	p. 183
Formal or polite commands	p. 184
When are formal commands used in Spanish?	p. 187
Informal (tú) affirmative command forms	p. 189
Tú negative command forms	p. 191
Plural familiar (vosotros) affirmative command forms	p. 192
Vosotros negative command forms	p. 193
When are informal (tú) commands used in Spanish?	p. 194
Commands and the position of reflexive and object pronouns	p. 194
Other ways of expressing a command (nosotros)	p. 196
Nouns and articles	p. 199
Gender of nouns in Spanish: endings of nouns	p. 199
Masculine nouns and their endings in Spanish	p. 199
Feminine nouns and their endings in Spanish	p. 201
Other endings to consider for the gender of nouns	p. 202
Other nouns and their gender	p. 204
Plural of nouns	p. 208
Definite articles	p. 210
When are definite articles used in Spanish?	p. 211
More about the uses of definite articles in Spanish	p. 213
When are definite articles omitted in Spanish?	p. 214
Lo, the neuter article	p. 215
Indefinite articles	p. 217
When are indefinite articles used in Spanish?	p. 218
When are indefinite articles not used in Spanish?	p. 219
Adjectives	p. 221
Gender and number of adjectives in Spanish	p. 221
Where are adjectives placed in Spanish?	p. 225
Other adjective forms used before nouns: the shortened forms	p. 227
Other considerations about the position of adjectives	p. 229
Words that function as adjectives	p. 230
Comparatives and superlatives	p. 231
Irregular comparative and superlative adjectives	p. 234
Other comparisons	p. 235
Personal pronouns	p. 237
Subject pronouns	p. 237
Uses of the subject pronouns	p. 238
Pronouns as objects of prepositions	p. 240
When are prepositional pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 241
Direct object pronouns	p. 242
When are direct object pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 243
Indirect object pronouns	p. 247
Where are indirect object pronouns placed?	p. 248
Double object pronouns	p. 252
How are double object pronouns used in Spanish?	p. 252
The indirect object pronoun with gustar and other verbs	p. 254
Relative pronouns	p. 258
Que: When is the relative pronoun que used in Spanish?	p. 259
Quien: When is the relative pronoun quien used in Spanish?	p. 261
EI que and el cual: When are the relative pronouns el que and el cual and their forms used in Spanish?	p. 263
Lo que and lo cual: When are the relative pronouns lo que and lo cual used in Spanish?	p. 264
Relative pronouns after prepositions	p. 266
Cuyo, cuya: When are the relative adjectives cuyo, cuya used in Spanish?	p. 267
Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns	p. 268
Possessive adjectives and pronouns	p. 268
Possessive adjective forms: the short forms and the long forms	p. 268
When are the short and long forms of the possessive adjectives used in Spanish?	p. 272
Possessive pronouns	p. 273
Demonstrative adjectives	p. 276
When are the different forms of the demonstrative adjectives used in Spanish?	p. 277
Demonstrative pronouns	p. 279
The neuter forms of the demonstrative pronouns	p. 281
Adverbs	p. 282
Adverb forms in Spanish	p. 282
Compound adverbs	p. 285
Other adverb forms: adverbial expressions	p. 287
Adjectives and nouns used as adverbs	p. 289
Comparisons with adverbs	p. 290
When are adverbs used in Spanish?	p. 291
Prepositions	p. 292
Frequently used prepositions in Spanish	p. 292
Relationships of commonly used prepositions and compound prepositions	p. 296
The preposition a and the personal a	p. 298
Uses of prepositions and their English equivalents	p. 300
The uses of para and por	p. 301
Por in common idiomatic expressions	p. 304
Verbs that require the preposition a or de + an infinitive in Spanish	p. 306
Verbs with other prepositions	p. 307
Verbs that require a preposition in English but not in Spanish	p. 308
Indefinite and negative words and expressions	p. 310
Indefinite and negative words in Spanish	p. 310
When are indefinite and negative words used in Spanish?	p. 311
Other negative expressions	p. 315
The conjunctions pero and sino and negative expressions	p. 315
When are pero and sino used in Spanish?	p. 316
Interrogative and exclamatory words	p. 318
Interrogative words and expressions	p. 318
Interrogative words in Spanish	p. 318
Other uses of interrogative words and expressions	p. 319
¿Para qué? ¿Por qué?: When are they used in Spanish?	p. 321
Interrogative words and expressions in indirect questions	p. 322
Exclamations	p. 323
Numbers	p. 326
Cardinal numbers	p. 326
When do we use cardinal numbers?	p. 328
Ordinal numbers	p. 332
Other numbers: fractions and multiple numbers	p. 334
Verb tables	p. 337
Glossaries
Spanish-English glossary	p. 345
English-Spanish glossary	p. 354
Answer key	p. 363
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