A New Reference Grammar of Modern SpanishA New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish has established itself as the standard English-language reference grammar for the Spanish language. It provides a comprehensive, accessible, and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is currently spoken and written in Spain and Latin America. Extensive examples are used to illustrate grammatical points, many from contemporary sources in both Spain and the Americas that highlight, where appropriate, differences in regional usage. Levels of usage (formal, colloquial, familiar, and popular) are specified, so that the importance of context in the use of language is recognized. This new edition has been updated throughout; it is the first grammar in English that incorporates the findings of the exhaustive new descriptive grammar of the Royal Spanish Academy (Gramatica descriptive de la lengua espanola, 5300pp). The 4th edition is also more accessible to students; complex explanations have been simplified and clarified, and a glossary of grammatical terms has been added to aid students. |
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accent adjectives adverbs ahora alguien años Argentina bien Bryce Echenique bueno Cambio16 casa cerrar cinco cleft sentences coche colloquial common construction contar cual decir definite article después día dialogue dijo dinero direct object discussed El País el/la English estaba estado esto estoy examples feminine French García Márquez GDLE gerund haber había hablando hablar hacerlo haya hecho his/her hombre horas imperative Imperfect Subjunctive infinitive language Latin America libro literary Madrid mañana María Martín Gaite masculine Mastretta meaning mejor mujer nadie noun number and gender object pronouns País passive past participle person phrases pluperfect plural poco preposition Present Indicative Present Subjunctive preterite problema pronominal verbs quiero refer relative clauses relative pronoun s)he Section sentences singular Spain Spanish speakers speech tengo tenía tense thing third-person tiempo transitive verbs translate tres usually Vargas Llosa viene visto vowel words