Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)

✍ Scribed by Nancy Stenson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Grammar Workbooks
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A pretty good grammar primer! The only missing link is a 'pronunciation' CD. In my opinion, all foreign language books need to provide 'pronunciation' assistance. In this case, an Irish grammar book -- where Irish does NOT pronounce as it is spelled -- and is subject to at least three different dialects -- sorely needs to provide all the assistance it can. Absent that, this volume does provide helpful information to fill in the gaps that other books -- such as the Christian Brothers Grammar book does not! I would, however, recommend the purchase of this book!

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
UNIT ONE Relative clauses I......Page 12
UNIT TWO Information questions......Page 22
UNIT THREE Focus structures......Page 28
UNIT FOUR Relative clauses II......Page 36
UNIT FIVE Impersonal forms......Page 48
UNIT SIX Adverbs I......Page 56
UNIT SEVEN Adverbs II: predicates and clauses......Page 64
UNIT EIGHT Directional adverbs I......Page 70
UNIT NINE Directional adverbs II: the compass points......Page 80
UNIT TEN Comparisons......Page 90
UNIT ELEVEN Conditional clauses I......Page 100
UNIT TWELVE Conditional clauses II......Page 110
UNIT THIRTEEN Habitual tenses......Page 118
UNIT FOURTEEN Causes and onsets......Page 126
UNIT FIFTEEN Higher numbers......Page 132
UNIT SIXTEEN Word formation I: Compounds......Page 142
UNIT SEVENTEEN Word formation II: Prefixes and suffixes......Page 150
UNIT EIGHTEEN Prepositions III......Page 160
UNIT NINETEEN Prepositions IV: Review of genitive case......Page 168
UNIT TWENTY The subjunctive mood......Page 176
UNIT TWENTY-ONE Some other structures......Page 182
UNIT TWENTY-TWO Dialect variation I: vocabulary......Page 188
UNIT TWENTY-THREE Dialect variation II: nouns and adjectives......Page 196
UNIT TWENTY-FOUR Dialect variation III: verbs......Page 204
UNIT TWENTY-FIVE Dialect variation IV: prepositions......Page 214
IRISH–ENGLISH AND ENGLISH–IRISH GLOSSARIES......Page 222

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Ирландский язык;Грамматика;