Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses,

✍ Scribed by Dorothy Richmond

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Series: Practice Makes Perfect Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in Spanish

If you are looking for help memorizing Spanish verb conjugations, then any Spanish verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent, you'll need to learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses comes in.

The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate Spanish-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in choosing the right word.

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses lets you:

• Learn when and why to use different verb tenses
• Reinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topics
• Build your verb skills using more than 250 engaging exercises

With numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to speak and write in Spanish fluently in no time at all.

Topics include: Present Tense; Conjugation of Regular Verbs; Ser and Estar ; Hay ; Tener ; The Personal a ; A Dozen Highly Useful Irregular Verbs; Saber and Conocer ; Stem-Changing Infinitives; Noteworthy Infinitives; Reflexive Verbs; Gustar et al.; The Present Progressive; The Past, Future, and Conditional Tenses; The Preterite Tense; The Imperfect Tense; The Future Tense; The Conditional Tense; The Present Perfect Tense; The Past Perfect Tense; The Imperative, Subjunctive, and Compound Tenses, and the Passive Voice; The Imperative; The Present Subjunctive; The Imperfect Subjunctive; The Future Perfect; The Conditional Perfect; The Present Perfect Subjunctive; The Pluperfect Subjunctive; The Passive Voice

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I: The Present Tense......Page 14
The basics of verbs......Page 16
Conjugating verbs......Page 17
Regular -ar verbs......Page 18
Negative sentences......Page 20
Regular -er verbs......Page 22
Regular -ir verbs......Page 24
Asking questions......Page 27
2 Ser and estar......Page 32
Using ser......Page 33
Using estar......Page 38
3 Hay......Page 44
Possession......Page 48
Idiomatic expressions with tener......Page 50
Obligation......Page 52
5 The personal a......Page 56
6 Common irregular verbs......Page 60
Phrases with two verbs—querer, poder, deber......Page 62
Describing the weather—hacer, estar......Page 63
Playing games—jugar......Page 64
Expressing future action—ir + a + INFINITIVE......Page 65
Saber......Page 70
Conocer......Page 73
o > ue......Page 78
e > ie......Page 80
e > i......Page 82
Infinitives ending with -cer preceded by a vowel......Page 86
Infinitives ending with -ucir......Page 88
Infinitives ending with -cer or -cir preceded by a consonant......Page 90
Infinitives ending with -ger or -gir......Page 91
Infinitives ending with -aer......Page 93
Infinitives ending with -uir not preceded by g......Page 94
Infinitives ending with -guir......Page 96
10 Reflexive verbs......Page 100
11 Verbs like gustar......Page 106
Formation of the present progressive......Page 112
Object pronouns with the present progressive......Page 117
II: The Past Tenses, The Future Tense, The Conditional Tense, and The Present and Past Perfect Tenses......Page 120
13 The preterite tense......Page 122
Regular verbs in the preterite......Page 123
Irregular verbs in the preterite......Page 130
Verbs that change meaning in the preterite......Page 145
14 The imperfect tense......Page 148
Irregular verbs in the imperfect......Page 149
When to use the imperfect......Page 150
Regular verbs in the future......Page 172
Irregular verbs in the future......Page 177
Regular verbs in the conditional......Page 184
Irregular verbs in the conditional......Page 187
Formation of the present perfect......Page 192
Formation of the past perfect......Page 200
III: The Imperative, The Subjunctive, The Future and Conditional Perfect Tenses, and The Passive Voice......Page 208
tú commands......Page 210
usted commands......Page 215
ustedes commands......Page 217
vosotros commands......Page 218
Notable characteristics of commands......Page 220
20 The present subjunctive......Page 224
Formation of the present subjunctive......Page 225
Uses of the present subjunctive......Page 227
Formation of the imperfect subjunctive......Page 246
Uses of the imperfect subjunctive......Page 247
Uses of the future perfect......Page 258
Formation of the conditional perfect......Page 264
Uses of the conditional perfect......Page 265
Formation of the present perfect subjunctive......Page 271
Uses of the present perfect subjunctive......Page 272
Formation of the pluperfect subjunctive......Page 277
Uses of the pluperfect subjunctive......Page 278
Incomplete passive voice......Page 285
Complete passive voice......Page 291
Appendix A: Verb conjugation charts......Page 295
Appendix B: Verbs that take a preposition......Page 299
Answer key......Page 305
A......Page 325
C......Page 326
D......Page 328
E......Page 329
G......Page 330
L......Page 331
M......Page 332
P......Page 333
S......Page 335
T......Page 336
Z......Page 337
A......Page 339
B......Page 340
C......Page 341
D......Page 342
F......Page 343
H......Page 344
K......Page 345
M......Page 346
O......Page 347
P......Page 348
S......Page 349
T......Page 351
W......Page 352
Y......Page 353