English Grammar for Students of Italian

by Primorac, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780934034203
• ISBN10: 0934034206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Olivia & Hill Pr

Table of Contents

To the Student	v
Introduction	1	(3)
1. What is a Noun?	4	(2)
2. What is Meant by Gender?	6	(4)
3. What is Meant by Number?	10	(3)
4. What are Indefinite and Definite Articles?	13	(5)
Indefinite Articles	13	(1)
Definite Articles	14	(4)
5. What is a Partitive?	18	(3)
6. What is the Possessive?	21	(3)
7. What is a Verb?	24	(2)
8. What is an Infinitive?	26	(3)
9. What are Auxiliary Verbs?	29	(3)
10. What is a Subject?	32	(2)
11. What is a Pronoun?	34	(2)
12. What is a Subject Pronoun?	36	(3)
13. What is Meant by Familiar and Formal "You"?	39	(3)
14. What is a Verb Conjugation?	42	(8)
15. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?	50	(3)
16. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?	53	(4)
17. What is Meant by Mood?	57	(2)
18. What is Meant by Tense?	59	(2)
19. What is the Present Tense?	61	(2)
20. What are Some Equivalents of "To be"?	63	(4)
21. What are the Progressive Tenses?	67	(3)
Present vs. Present Progressive Tense	68	(2)
22. What is a Participle?	70	(6)
Present Participle	70	(1)
"Gerundio"	71	(1)
Gerund	72	(1)
Past Participle	73	(3)
23. What is a Past Tense?	76	(7)
Present Perfect ("passato prossimo")	77	(1)
Selection of the Auxiliary "Avere" or "Essere"	78	(1)
Agreement of the Past Participle	78	(2)
Imperfect ("imperfetto")	80	(1)
Selecting the "Passato Prossimo" or the "Imperfetto"	80	(3)
24. What is the Past Perfect?	83	(3)
25. What is the Future Tense?	86	(4)
Future of Probability	88	(2)
26. What is the Future Perfect?	90	(3)
27. What is the Imperative?	93	(4)
28. What is the Subjunctive?	97	(4)
29. What is the Conditional?	101	(6)
Present Conditional	101	(2)
Past Conditional	103	(4)
30. What is a Reflexive Verb?	107	(4)
31. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?	111	(5)
Changing an Active Sentence to a Passive Sentence	112	(2)
Avoiding the Passive Voice	114	(2)
32. What is an Adjective?	116	(1)
33. What is a Descriptive Adjective?	116	(4)
Nouns Used as Adjectives	118	(2)
34. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?	120	(4)
Comparative	120	(1)
Superlative	121	(1)
Absolute Superlative	122	(2)
35. What is a Possessive Adjective?	124	(7)
36. What is an Interrogative Adjective?	131	(2)
37. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?	133	(3)
38. What is an Adverb?	136	(3)
Adverb or Adjective?	137	(2)
39. What is a Preposition?	139	(3)
40. What is a Conjunction?	142	(2)
41. What are Objects?	144	(8)
Direct Object	144	(1)
Indirect Object	145	(1)
Sentences with a Direct and Indirect Object	146	(1)
Object of a Preposition	147	(5)
42. What is an Object Pronoun?	152	(11)
Italian Direct Object Pronouns	153	(3)
Italian Indirect Object Pronouns	156	(2)
Italian Object of Preposition Pronouns	158	(2)
Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns	160	(3)
43. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?	163	(6)
"Who, Whom"	163	(1)
"Whose"	164	(1)
"What"	165	(1)
"Which one, which ones"	166	(1)
"What is...? What are...?" "Che" vs. "Quale"	166	(1)
"How much, how many"	167	(2)
44. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?	169	(4)
"The one, the ones"	170	(3)
45. What is a Possessive Pronoun?	173	(2)
46. What is a Relative Pronoun?	175	(11)
Subject of the Relative Clause	177	(1)
Direct Object of the Relative Clause	178	(1)
Indirect Object or Object of a Preposition of the Relative Clause	179	(2)
Possessive Modifier in the Relative Clause	181	(2)
Relative Pronouns Without Antecedents	183	(3)
47. What are Positive and Negative Indefinites?	186	(5)
Answer Key	191	(4)
Index	195