1st Edition

Intermediate Portuguese A Grammar and Workbook

By Cristina Sousa Copyright 2024
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning. This comprehensive volume takes a grammatical approach which encourages students to familiarise themselves with the grammar points in each unit, using a wide... Read more

Introduction   

Unit 1 Relative pronouns

Unit 2 The future tense

Unit 3 The conditional tense

Unit 4 The subjunctive mood

Unit 5 The past (or imperfect) subjunctive

Unit 6 The future subjunctive

Unit 7 The infinitive and personal infinitive

Unit 8 The present participle

Unit 9 The passive voice and the past participle

Unit 10 Verb ‘haver’

Unit 11 Impersonal and unipersonal verbs

Unit 12 Commands and the imperative mood

Unit 13 Direct and reported speech

Unit 14 Conjunctions

Unit 15 Prepositions

Unit 16 Perfect tenses in the indicative mood

Unit 17 Perfect tenses in the subjunctive mood

Unit 18 Compound infinitive and present participle

Unit 19 Using 'gente/a gente', 'ainda/já', 'tão/tanto', 'tudo/todo'

Unit 20 Auxiliary verbs

Unit 21 Versatile verbs

Unit 22 Revision

Glossary

 Key to exercises

Biography

Cristina Sousa holds a PhD in literary translation. She is a translator, proofreader and copywriter and she has lectured in Portuguese Studies at various universities in the UK.