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Author Butt, John, 1943- author

Title A new reference grammar of modern Spanish / John Butt & Carmen Benjamin
Edition Fifth edition
Published London : Hodder Education, 2011
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013
©2011

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Description xii, 591 pages ; 25 cm
Series Routledge Reference Grammars
Routledge reference grammars.
Contents Contents note continued: 35.Relative clauses and relative pronouns -- 36.Nominalizers and cleft sentences -- 37.Word order -- 38.Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes -- 39.Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division
Machine generated contents note: 1.Gender of nouns -- 2.Plural of nouns -- 3.Articles -- 4.Adjectives -- 5.Comparison of adjectives and ad verbs -- 6.Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns -- 7.Neuter article and neuter pronouns -- 8.Possessive adjectives and pronouns -- 9.Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns -- 10.Numerals -- 11.Personal pronouns -- 12.Le/les and lo/la/los/las -- 13.Forms of Spanish verbs -- 14.Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms -- 15.Continuous forms of the verb -- 16.The subjunctive -- 17.The imperative -- 18.The infinitive -- 19.Participles -- 20.The gerund -- 21.Modal auxiliary verbs -- 22.Personal a -- 23.Negation -- 24.Interrogation and exclamations -- 25.Conditional sentences -- 26.Pronominal verbs -- 27.Verbs of becoming -- 28.Passive and impersonal sentences -- 29.Ser and estar -- 30.Existential sentences -- 31.Adverbs -- 32.Expressions of time -- 33.Conjunctions and discourse markers -- 34.Prepositions --
Summary This text provides a comprehensive guide to the forms and structures of the Spanish spoken and written in Spain and Latin America. Examples have been introduced, drawing on contemporary Spanish and Latin American usage
Notes Previous edition: 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Spanish language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
Spanish language -- Grammar
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Author Benjamin, Carmen, author
ISBN 1444137697 (paperback)
9781444137699 (paperback)