Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks) (Italian and English Edition)

✍ Scribed by Stella Peyronnel, Ian Higgins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Grammar Workbooks
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introducing Italian culture and people through the medium of the language used today, Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations.

Presenting twenty-three individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, Basic Italian is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follow volume. Each unit consists of jargon-free explanations and comparisons with English, which focus upon the more common difficulties experienced by learners of Italian.

Features include:

* contemporary examples in both Italian and English

* grammar tables for easy reference

* full exercise answer key

* glossary of grammatical terms.

Basic Italian is the ideal reference and practice book for beginners, as well as for students with some knowledge of the language.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS......Page 9
UNIT ONE Nouns: gender and number......Page 12
UNIT TWO Definite and indefinite articles......Page 20
UNIT THREE Adjectives; possessive and demonstrative pronouns......Page 28
UNIT FOUR The present tense of essere and avere......Page 39
UNIT FIVE The present tense of regular (and some irregular) verbs......Page 47
UNIT SIX Adverbs......Page 57
UNIT SEVEN Direct object pronouns (1)......Page 63
UNIT EIGHT Prepositions......Page 68
UNIT NINE Questions......Page 79
UNIT TEN Indirect object pronouns (1)......Page 85
UNIT ELEVEN Piacere and similar verbs......Page 90
UNIT TWELVE The present perfect tense......Page 95
UNIT THIRTEEN Direct and indirect object pronouns (2)......Page 105
UNIT FOURTEEN Direct and indirect object pronouns (3: stressed forms)......Page 110
UNIT FIFTEEN Relative pronouns......Page 115
UNIT SIXTEEN The imperfect tense......Page 122
UNIT SEVENTEEN The pronouns ne and ci......Page 131
UNIT EIGHTEEN The future tense......Page 140
UNIT NINETEEN The past perfect tense......Page 148
UNIT TWENTY Reflexive pronouns......Page 154
UNIT TWENTY-ONE The imperative......Page 160
UNIT TWENTY-TWO The pronoun si......Page 168
UNIT TWENTY-THREE The present conditional......Page 173
KEY TO EXERCISES......Page 179
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS......Page 198
INDEX......Page 202

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Итальянский язык;Грамматика;