Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Written for intermediate students taking Spanish on a high school or college
level, this book can be used in the classroom as a main text or as a
textbook supplement. It covers every aspect of Spanish grammar and correct
usage, beginning with verbs and analyzing verb tenses, the passive voice,
reflexive verbs, verb usage in the subjunctive mood, imperative command verb
forms, and uses of verb infinitives. The book’s subsequent sections cover
nouns, modifiers and the other parts of speech, with discussion of various
interrogative forms, words that express negation, feminine forms,
demonstratives and possessives, pronouns, diminutive and augmentative word
formations, and more. Contemporary idioms are interspersed throughout the
text, and the book’s many exercises give students plenty of solid practice.
Cartoon illustrations throughout the book help to demonstrate points of
Spanish grammar.
From the Inside Flap
(back cover)
Students of Spanish will find a comprehensive summary of grammar and correct
usage in this book. It begins with a review of standard Spanish sounds,
spelling, and sentence types. It then goes on to analyze all verb tenses,
the passive voice, reflexive verbs, the subjunctive mood, imperative command
verb forms, and uses of infinitives. Following chapters cover nouns,
modifiers and the other parts of speech, with discussion of interrogative
forms, words that express negation, feminine forms, demonstratives and
possessives, pronouns, diminutive and augmentative word formations, and
more. Contemporary idioms are interspersed throughout the text, and
exercises in every chapter will help you sharpen your understanding of
Spanish grammar.
Product Details
- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (October 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0764133756
- ISBN-13: 978-0764133756
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
- Average Customer Review:
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customer reviews)
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This product is an absolutely fabulous and very acurate resource. I repeatedly
checked it out from the library for about a year off and on before I decided
maybe I should just go ahead and buy a copy of my own.
My only dissatisfaction lies in Amazon's classification of "like new" meant, at
least in my case, that the last few pages, i.e. the index in the back, were all
spliced down the middle. Although this does not present that great of an
inconvenience, I would have preferred that they state what the defect was if the
"like new" category can include a defect where the book has been actually
damaged and not just a bit worn around the edges.
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I have spent years at learning Spanish, and was looking for the best and easiest
book out there that covered "everything there is to know" about Spanish grammar.
I was fed up with hauling around several books at once, and didn't want to
battle through long exercises and worthless dialogs. I JUST WANTED TO REVIEW my
grammar from time to time. The author is obviously a second language learner
because he presents each grammatical feature in a way that makes it clear and
simple to understand. Don't waste your time with the others. I probably own
them. Trust me -- this book should be a text in Spanish classrooms everywhere!
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I used to be very fluent in Spanish and have had occasion over the past years
the need to return to previous fluency. I also live in a city that is very
bilingual and a state in which Spanish is an official language. I have lots of
exposure to the Spanish language but want to refresh for pending international
travel. I am approximately 70 pages into this review guide and hate it. These
earlier pages are dedicated to verb conjugation and the coverage is far too
sparse (too much all at once)and exercises often seem unrelated to immediately
preceding text and rely too much on unfamiliar vocabulary. I am ready to return
to a workbook I used previously, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses I
found that workbook very helpful.
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