A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

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Routledge, 5 sept 2013 - 608 páginas
For many years A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish.

Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramática de la lengua española', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.

Key features of this fifth edition include:

  • a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition
  • new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish
  • more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage
  • aclearer guidance to recommended usage
    -advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules.
    Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.

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    Índice

    1 Gender of nouns
    1
    2 Plural of nouns
    16
    3 Articles
    27
    4 Adjectives
    49
    5 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
    71
    6 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
    81
    7 Neuter article and neuter pronouns
    87
    8 Possessive adjectives and pronouns
    94
    24 Interrogation and exclamations
    347
    25 Conditional sentences
    354
    26 Pronominal verbs
    361
    27 Verbs of becoming
    386
    28 Passive and impersonal sentences
    391
    29 Ser and estar
    408
    30 Existential sentences
    417
    31 Adverbs
    421

    9 Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns
    102
    10 Numerals
    119
    11 Personal pronouns
    130
    12 Leles and lolaloslas
    154
    13 Forms of Spanish verbs
    166
    14 Use of indicative noncontinuous verb forms
    202
    15 Continuous forms of the verb
    233
    16 The subjunctive
    241
    17 The imperative
    283
    18 The infinitive
    292
    19 Participles
    304
    20 The gerund
    309
    21 Modal auxiliary verbs
    320
    22 Personal a
    328
    23 Negation
    336
    32 Expressions of time
    440
    33 Conjunctions and discourse markers
    453
    34 Prepositions
    470
    35 Relative clauses and relative pronouns
    502
    36 Nominalizers and cleft sentences
    513
    37 Word order
    520
    38 Diminutive augmentative and pejorative suffixes
    531
    39 Spelling accent rules punctuation and word division
    538
    Glossary of grammatical terms
    553
    Glossary of computing and telephone terminology
    562
    Bibliography and sources
    567
    Index of English words
    569
    Index of Spanish words and grammatical points
    572
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    Sobre el autor (2013)

    JOHN BUTT, Emeritus Professor of Modern Hispanic Studies, King's College, London

    CARMEN BENJAMIN, a native speaker of Spanish and a former lecturer in Spanish at King's College, London

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