Synopses & Reviews
Learn verb skills and communicate confidently in a new languageBuilding on the authors’ bestselling The Ultimate Review and Practice series, this book is your best bet to mastering the often tricky verb forms and key sentence structures of the Spanish language. The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice offers a step-by-step program for experienced beginners through advanced learners to understand how different verb forms work and use that knowledge to build increasingly sophisticated sentences in Spanish. No other book on the market combines guidance and practice in verb formation and usage with tips on the 18 most commonly used sentence models.
About the Author
Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D., is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, and history. David M. Stillman, Ph.D., teaches Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew at The College of New Jersey.
Table of Contents
Preface.........................vii
Introduction.................... ix
1.
THE PRESENT TENSE OF REGULAR VERBS
BUILDING SENTENCES
Subject + verb, subject + verb + direct object Negative sentences
2. STEM-CHANGING VERBS;
SPECIAL VERBS ENDING in-ar and -uar
BUILDING SENTENCES Verb+ infinitive construction
Personal a
3. IRREGULAR VERBS (Part I)
BUILDING SENTENCES Questions
4.IRREGULAR VERBS (Part II)
BUILDING SENTENCES
Verb + Connector + infinitive construction
5.SER and ESTAR
BUILDING SENTENCES
Sentences with direct object pronouns
6.THE PRETERIT
BUILDING SENTENCES
Sentences with indirect objects
7. THE IMPERFECT; THE IMPERFECT VS. THE PRETERIT BUILDING SENTENCES Sentences with double object pronouns
8.THE PAST PARTICPLE; THE PRESENT PERFECT; THE PLUPERFECT BUILDING SENTENCES Use of the past particple 137
9. THE IMPERATIVE 144 BULIDING SENTENCES
Imperative sentences with object pronouns 163
10.
THE FUTURE AND THE CONDITIONAL;
THE FUTURE PERFECT and the CONDITIONAL PERFECT
Answer Key 280
Index 305