Table of Contents

Introduction Glossary of Grammatical Terms 1 Pronunciation, Accents, Spelling and Punctuation 2 Articles Nouns 4 Adjectives 5 Comparison 6 Numerals 7 Personal Pronouns 8 Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns 9 Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns 10 Relative Clauses 11 Interrogatives and Exclamations 12 Indefinites 13 Verbs 14 Present Tense 15 Future Tense 16 Conditional Tense 17 Perfect Tense 18 Preterite Tense 19 Imperfect Tense 20 The Preterite and Imperfect Tenses Contrasted 21 Compound Tenses 22 The Subjunctive 23 Continuous Forms of the Verb 24 If-clauses 25 The Imperative 26 Spelling Changes in Verbs 27 Modal Verbs 28 Gustar-type and Impersonal Verbs 29 Ser and Estar 30 Active and Passive 31 Pronominal Verbs 32 The Infinitive 33 The Past Participle 34 The Gerund 35 Negation 36 Adverbs 37 Prepositions 38 Conjunctions 39 Diminutives and Augmentatives 40 Word Order Verb Tables Key to Part I Exercises Key to Part II Exercises Index

About the Author

MIKE THACKER, formerly Director of The Language Centre, University of Surrey, UK. PILAR MUNOZ, formerly Senior Tutor in the Department of Culture, Media and Communication, University of Surrey, UK.