Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice : Mastering Verbs and Sentence Building for Confident Communication

by Gordon, Ronni; Stillman, David

• ISBN13: 9780071416733
• ISBN10: 0071416730
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice offers you an exciting new way to gain the confidence and skills you need to take the next big step on the road to Spanish fluency.

Author Biography

Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D. is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, history, and teacher training.

David M. Stillman, Ph.D. is a professor at the College of New Jersey, where he teaches Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Present Tense of Regular Verbs	p. 1
Building Sentences
Subject + verb, subject + verb + direct object	p. 16
Negative sentences	p. 23
Stem-changing Verbs; Special Verbs Ending in -iar and -uar	p. 28
Building Sentences
Verb + infinitive construction	p. 35
Personal a	p. 39
Irregular Verbs (Part I)	p. 42
Building Sentences
Questions	p. 51
Irregular Verbs (Part II)	p. 58
Building Sentences
Verb + connector + infinitive construction	p. 63
Ser and Estar	p. 70
Building Sentences
Sentences with direct object pronouns	p. 82
The Preterit	p. 87
Building Sentences
Sentences with indirect objects	p. 103
The Imperfect; The Imperfect vs. the Preterit	p. 109
Building Sentences
Sentences with double object pronouns	p. 123
The Past Participle; The Present Perfect; The Pluperfect	p. 128
Building Sentences
Uses of the past participle	p. 137
The Imperative	p. 144
Building Sentences
Imperative sentences with object pronouns	p. 163
The Future and the Conditional; The Future Perfect and the Conditional Perfect	p. 168
Building Sentences
Sentences expressing probability	p. 179
The Subjunctive (Part I): The Present Subjunctive	p. 186
Building Sentences
Compound and complex sentences	p. 206
The Subjunctive (Part II): The Present Perfect Subjunctive; The Imperfect Subjunctive; The Pluperfect Subjunctive	p. 210
Building Sentences
Conditional sentences	p. 222
Reflexive Verbs	p. 227
Building Sentences
Sentences with the reflexive pronoun as indirect object	p. 242
The Present Participle; The Progressive Tenses	p. 248
Building Sentences
Word order in Spanish	p. 259
Passive Constructions; Reverse Construction Verbs	p. 264
Building Sentences
Se le construction for unplanned occurrences	p. 277
Answer Key	p. 280
Index	p. 305
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