Advanced Spanish Grammar by Rogelio Alonso Vallecillos

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  • Pub. Date: May 2008
  • 208pp
  • Sales Rank: 40,821

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    • Pub. Date: May 2008
    • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
    • Format: Paperback, 208pp
    • Sales Rank: 40,821

    Synopsis

    Take your Spanish grammar skills to the next level and speak with more soltura!

    To fully understand how to speak Spanish effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar focuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally.

    Instead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confidence as a Spanish speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises. Inside you will find:

    • Thorough explanations of topics that often prove difficult for English speakers when they learn Spanish, such as the correct use of object pronouns.
    • Practical exercises that give you the opportunity to test what you've learned

    Learn the ins and outs of:
    Some/any and quantity determiners • Adverbs • Problematic prepositions • Relative pronouns • Idiomatic constructions • . . . and much more

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    Biography

    Rogelio Alonso Vallecillos teaches Spanish at his own language academy and is the author of Essential Spanish Verb Skills.

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    Fine-tuning your Spanish Grammarby SDSteele

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    May 23, 2009: This is a great grammar workout for those who have advanced from the basics and completed the intermediate level, but want to either refresh their grammar skills or fine-tune them. It is also good for someone who has not used the language for a while as it will refresh all the nit-picky pronouns, prepositions, and problematic grammatical idiosyncrasies of the language.

    While I was not initially crazy about the layout/font (text runs on without enough "white space" to delineate differing aspects of that particular lesson), the exercises at the end of each chapter more than make up for any other weaknesses. To be able to self-test and make sure you understand before moving on is priceless.

    I will use this not only personally, but for teaching at the advanced high-school level.

    Extremely Useful Complimentary Grammar Book for Spanish Studentsby Anonymous

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    July 25, 2008: This book on Spanish grammar is very useful. I wish I had it when I was studying Spanish in high school or college. It discusses so many nitty-gritty things that Spanish students struggle with. When I first got it, I was under the impression that it would explain the past tenses, the subjunctive, etc. It's advanced Spanish grammar, right? When I read the table of contents, I was pleasently surprised to see that it discusses much more valuable information than just that. The following is its table of contents: 1. Object Pronouns and omission of subject pronouns 2. Some/any and other determiners 3. Adjectives 4. Adverbs 5. Commands & requests 6. Modal constructions 7. Impersonal sentences & the passive 8. Relative pronouns & conjunctions 9. Reported speech 10. Problematic prepositions I 11. Problematic prepositions II 12. Idiomatic constructions Every chapter has very detailed information, along with exercises. My favorite chapters are the two that deal with prepostions. Prepositions are tricky in any language, and Spanish is no exception. Having said all this, this book is not for absolute beginners. It's better suited to intermediate or advanced students. I majored in Spanish in college and find this book helpful. If I ever tutor students, I will probably refer to this text. So many of my students ask me questions that I don't always have the answer to. I simply 'know without knowing.' Now I can refer to this book when I need to.