¡Exacto!: A Practical Guide to Spanish Grammar

✍ Scribed by Ane Ortega, Tita Beaven, Cecilia Garrido, Sean Scrivener

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: Routledge Concise Grammars
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

¡Exacto! is an accessible guide to Spanish grammar.

Using an appealing visual layout, the essentials of Spanish grammar are presented in tables and charts allowing learners to navigate the information easily and view explanations, examples of usage and any exceptions to the rule at a glance.

Key features:

• Grids and tables ensure key information is available for quick reference and review
• Graded to allow students to hone in on the material most suited to their current level
• Coverage of Spanish as a world language, with examples from different varieties of Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Spanish
• Grammar and workbook in one, with exercises within each unit to practise and consolidate learning
• A glossary of grammatical terminology ensures all explanations within the book are clear and accessible
• An answer key making it ideal for self-study.

Suitable for class use and independent study, this new edition of ¡Exacto! is the ideal grammar reference and practice resource for all learners of Spanish, from beginners to advanced students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
How to use this book
Glossary
1 Accentuation
1.1 General written accentuation rules in Spanish
1.2 Diacritic accent
1.3 Vowel combinations
1.4 Accents with enclitic pronouns
1.5 Accents on upper case vowels
1.6 Diaeresis
2 Nouns
2.1 Natural gender
2.2 Grammatical gender
2.3 Number
2.4 Collective nouns
2.5 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes
3 Articles
3.1 The definite article
3.2 The indefinite article
4 Qualifying adjectives
4.1 Agreement in gender and number
4.2 Shortened forms and change of meaning
4.3 Comparison of adjectives
4.4 The superlative
4.5 Comparison of adverbs, nouns and verbs
5 Personal pronouns
5.1 Subject pronouns
5.2 Forms of address
5.3 Direct object pronouns
5.4 Indirect object pronouns
5.5 Object pronouns with prepositions
5.6 Order of object pronouns
6 Demonstratives
7 Possessives
7.1 Possessive adjectives
7.2 Possessive pronouns
8 Numerals
8.1 Cardinal numbers
8.2 Ordinal numbers
8.3 Collective numbers and fractions
9 Indefinites
10 Adverbs
11 Interrogatives
12 Prepositions
13 Interjections
14 The Spanish verb
15 Impersonal forms of the verb
15.1 The infinitive
15.2 The gerund
15.3 The past participle
16 Present tenses of the indicative
16.1 The present simple
16.2 The present continuous
17 Future tenses of the indicative
17.1 The future with ir a
17.2 The future simple
17.3 The future continuous
17.4 The future perfect
18 Past tenses of the indicative
18.1 The imperfect
18.2 The imperfect continuous
18.3 The preterite
18.4 Choosing between the preterite and the imperfect
18.5 The perfect
18.6 The perfect continuous
18.7 The pluperfect
18.8 The pluperfect continuous
19 Imperatives
20 Conditional tenses
20.1 The conditional
20.2 The conditional perfect
21 Subjunctive tenses
21.1 The present subjunctive
21.2 The perfect subjunctive
21.3 The imperfect subjunctive
21.4 The pluperfect subjunctive
22 Special verbs
22.1 To be: ser and estar
22.2 The verb haber
22.3 Gustar and similar verbs
22.4 Soler and acostumbrar
22.5 Pronominal verbs
23 Special verb constructions
23.1 Impersonal sentences
23.2 The passive
23.3 Uses of se
24 Sentence organisation: the simple sentence
25 Negatives
26 Sentence organisation: compound and complex sentences
26.1 The compound sentence
26.2 The complex sentence
26.3 The noun clause
26.4 The adjectival or relative clause
26.5 The adverbial clause
26.6 Time relations
26.7 The conditional sentence
27 Indirect speech
Appendix: verb tables
Key to exercises
Bibliography
Grammatical index