¡Exacto!: A Practical Guide to Spanish Grammar

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Title
Copyright
Contents
How to use this book
Glossary
1 Accentuation
	1.1 General written accentuation rules in Spanish
	1.2 Diacritic accent
	1.3 Vowel combinations
	1.4 Accents with enclitic pronouns
	1.5 Accents on upper case vowels
	1.6 Diaeresis
2 Nouns
	2.1 Natural gender
	2.2 Grammatical gender
	2.3 Number
	2.4 Collective nouns
	2.5 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes
3 Articles
	3.1 The definite article
	3.2 The indefinite article
4 Qualifying adjectives
	4.1 Agreement in gender and number
	4.2 Shortened forms and change of meaning
	4.3 Comparison of adjectives
	4.4 The superlative
	4.5 Comparison of adverbs, nouns and verbs
5 Personal pronouns
	5.1 Subject pronouns
	5.2 Forms of address
	5.3 Direct object pronouns
	5.4 Indirect object pronouns
	5.5 Object pronouns with prepositions
	5.6 Order of object pronouns
6 Demonstratives
7 Possessives
	7.1 Possessive adjectives
	7.2 Possessive pronouns
8 Numerals
	8.1 Cardinal numbers
	8.2 Ordinal numbers
	8.3 Collective numbers and fractions
9 Indefinites
10 Adverbs
11 Interrogatives
12 Prepositions
13 Interjections
14 The Spanish verb
15 Impersonal forms of the verb
	15.1 The infinitive
	15.2 The gerund
	15.3 The past participle
16 Present tenses of the indicative
	16.1 The present simple
	16.2 The present continuous
17 Future tenses of the indicative
	17.1 The future with ir a
	17.2 The future simple
	17.3 The future continuous
	17.4 The future perfect
18 Past tenses of the indicative
	18.1 The imperfect
	18.2 The imperfect continuous
	18.3 The preterite
	18.4 Choosing between the preterite and the imperfect
	18.5 The perfect
	18.6 The perfect continuous
	18.7 The pluperfect
	18.8 The pluperfect continuous
19 Imperatives
20 Conditional tenses
	20.1 The conditional
	20.2 The conditional perfect
21 Subjunctive tenses
	21.1 The present subjunctive
	21.2 The perfect subjunctive
	21.3 The imperfect subjunctive
	21.4 The pluperfect subjunctive
22 Special verbs
	22.1 To be: ser and estar
	22.2 The verb haber
	22.3 Gustar and similar verbs
	22.4 Soler and acostumbrar
	22.5 Pronominal verbs
23 Special verb constructions
	23.1 Impersonal sentences
	23.2 The passive
	23.3 Uses of se
24 Sentence organisation: the simple sentence
25 Negatives
26 Sentence organisation: compound and complex sentences
	26.1 The compound sentence
	26.2 The complex sentence
	26.3 The noun clause
	26.4 The adjectival or relative clause
	26.5 The adverbial clause
	26.6 Time relations
	26.7 The conditional sentence
27 Indirect speech
Appendix: verb tables
Key to exercises
Bibliography
Grammatical index