Easy Learning Spanish Grammar

Collins Dictionaries

• Publisher: Collins
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780008181406
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Spanish Language
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of Spanish. Ideal for Spanish revision.

Designed for all those learning Spanish at school, at work or at home. It provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted throughout as a means of reinforcement. In addition, a full glossary gives clear explanations of grammatical terminology.

This book also provides beginners with all the regular verb forms and conjugations, and the most common tenses of irregular verbs are shown in full. An index contains over 2,800 verbs which are cross-referred to their conjugation model.

• Explains the essential points of Spanish grammar using simple language throughout.

• Hundreds of examples of real Spanish illustrate clearly the grammatical points being made.

• Specially designed for eReaders, including iPad, with a clear, colour layout.

VerbsWhat is a verb?A verbis a ‘doing’ word which describes what someone or something does, what someone or something is, or what happens to them, for example, be, sing, live.Overview of verbs➤Verbs are frequently used with a noun, with somebody’s name or, particularly in English, with a pronoun such as I, youor she. They can relate to the present, the past and the future; this is called their tense.➪For more information on Nouns and Pronouns, see pages 1 and 41.➤Verbs are either:●regular; their forms follow the normal rules●irregular; their forms do not follow normal rules➤Almost all verbs have a form called the infinitive. This is a base form of the verb (for example, walk, see, hear) that hasn’t had any endings added to it and doesn’t relate to any particular tense. In English, the infinitive is usually shown with to, as in to speak, to eat, to live.➤In Spanish, the infinitive is always made up of just one word (never two as in to speak in English) and ends in -ar,-eror -ir:for example, hablar(meaning to...

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• IMPRINT
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS
• INTRODUCTION FOR STUDENTS
• GLOSSARY OF GRAMMAR TERMS
• NOUNS
• ARTICLES
• ADJECTIVES
• PRONOUNS
• VERBS
• NEGATIVES
• QUESTIONS
• ADVERBS
• PREPOSITIONS
• CONJUNCTIONS
• SPELLING
• STRESS
• NUMBERS
• MAIN INDEX
• VERB TABLES
• VERB INDEX
• THE ALPHABET