- Preface to the fifth edition Conventions, spelling and abbreviations
- 1. Gender of nouns
- 2. Plural of nouns
- 3. Articles
- 4. Adjectives
- 5. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
- 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
- 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 Glossary of grammatical terms Bibliography and sources Index of English words Index of Spanish words and grammatical points.
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