1st Edition

Basic Italian A Grammar and Workbook

208 Pages

by Routledge

208 Pages

by Routledge

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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... Read more

Introduction. List of Signs and Abbreviations 1. Nouns; Gender and Number 2. Definite and Indefinite Articles 3. Adjectives; Possessive and Demonstrative Pronouns 4. The Present Tense of essere and avere 5. The Present Tense of Regular (and some Irregular) Verbs 6. Adverbs 7. Direct Object Pronouns (1) 8. Prepositions 9. Questions 10. Indirect Object Pronouns (1) 11. Piacere and Similar Verbs 12. The Present Perfect Tense 13. Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns (2) 14. Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns (3: Stressed Forms) 15. Relative Pronouns 16. The Imperfect Tense 17. The Pronouns ne and ci 18. The Future Tense 19. The Past Perfect Tense 20. Reflexive Pronouns 21. The Imperative 22. The Pronouns si 23. The Present Conditional. Key to Exercises. Glossary