Practising Spanish Grammar

Practising Spanish Grammar can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin and Moreira Rodríguez). Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition of the workbook features an improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish,sixth edition. The selection of exercises has been fully revised and expanded with new exercises on a variety of topics including possessives, conditional, future and past tenses, and polite requests. Designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students, this is an ideal resource for Spanish learners at CEFR Level B2–C1, ACFTL Intermediate-High to Advanced.

Contents 1. Nouns 2. Articles 3. Adjectives 4. Comparatives 5. Demonstratives 6. The neuter 7. Possessives 8. Numbers 9. Pronouns 10. Forms of verbs 11. Indicative usage 12. The subjunctive 13. The imperative 14. Non-finite forms of the verb 15. Auxiliary verbs - poder, saber etc. 16. Personal a 17. Negative constructions 18. Questions and exclamations 19. Conditional sentences 20. Pronominal verbs 21. The expression of 'becoming' 22. Passive 23. Ser, estar and haber 24. Adverbs 25. Expressions of time 26. Conjunctions 27. Prepositions 28. Relative pronouns 29. Nominalizers and cleft sentences 30. Word order 31. Affective suffixes 32. Spelling and punctuation 33. General exercises Glossary of Grammatical Terms Key to the Exercises

Angela Howkins is a former Lecturer in Spanish at Dundee College, Scotland. Christopher Pountain is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary's College, University of London. Teresa de Carlos is a native speaker of Spanish and a former Senior Language Teaching Officer at the University of Cambridge.