John Butt is Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Studies of King’s College London, UK. He studied Spanish, French and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge and went on to lecture in Spanish literature and language at King’s College London for 37 years.Carmen Benjamin, a native speaker of Spanish, taught Spanish at King’s College London, UK.Antonia Moreira Rodríguez, also a native speaker of Spanish, teaches Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies of King’s College London, UK.

• Chapter1 Gender of nouns 2 Plural of nouns 3 The defi nite article 4 The indefi nite article 5 Adjectives6 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs 7 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 8 Neuter article and neuter pronouns 9 Possessive adjectives and pronouns 10 Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns 11 Numerals 12 Personal pronouns, subject 13 Personal pronouns used with prepositions 14 Personal pronouns, object 15 Le/les and lo/la/los/las 16 Forms of Spanish verbs 17 Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb tenses 18 Use of indicative (non-continuous) compound tenses 19 Continuous forms of verbs 20 The subjunctive 21 The imperative 22 The infi nitive 23 Participles 24 The gerund 25 Auxiliary verbs 26 Personal a 27 Negation 28 Questions and exclamations 29 Conditional sentences 30 Pronominal verbs 31 Verbs of becoming 32 Passive and impersonal sentences 33 Ser and estar 34 ‘There is’, ‘there are’, ‘there was’, ‘there were’, etc. 35 Adverbs 36 Expressions of time 37 Conjunctions and discourse markers 38 Prepositions 39 Relative clauses and relative pronouns 40 Nominalizers 41 Cleft sentences 42 Word order 43 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes 44 Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division Glossary of grammatical terms Bibliography and sources Index of English words Index of grammatical points and Spanish words

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