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A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive,
cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as
it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It
includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena
of Spanish, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples of
contemporary Spanish, both Peninsular and Latin-American, formal
and informal. Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition is even
more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish. Practising
Spanish Grammar is the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the
widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish.
Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition of the workbook features an
improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference
Grammar of Modern Spanish, sixth edition. The selection of
exercises has been fullyrevised and expanded with new exercises on
a variety of topics includingpossessives, conditional, future and
past tenses, and polite requests. The combination of reference
grammar and workbook is invaluable for learners at level B2-C2 of
the Common European Framework for Languages, and Intermediate
High-Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive,
cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as
it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It
includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena
of Spanish, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples of
contemporary Spanish, both Peninsular and Latin-American, formal
and informal. Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition is even
more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish. The sixth
edition includes: * new chapters, providing more detail and
examples of key areas of Spanish grammar; * an increased number of
Mexican examples to reflect the growing interest in this country's
variety of Spanish; * new information for readers studying Spanish
and French together; * a glossary of grammatical terms including
English translations of Spanish terms. The combination of reference
grammar and manual of current usage is invaluable for learners at
level B2-C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and
Intermediate High-Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate
and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the
morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain
and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is
the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one
countries, } and it is set fair to overtake English by the year
2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and
political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less
unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or
less internationally standardized according to either American or
British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally
correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but
the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most
solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the
spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y
ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all
Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later,
are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons
everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays
decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of
native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously
difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely
scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular
Spanish is itself in flux."
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive,
cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as
it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It
includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena
of Spanish, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples of
contemporary Spanish, both Peninsular and Latin-American, formal
and informal. Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition is even
more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish. The sixth
edition includes: * new chapters, providing more detail and
examples of key areas of Spanish grammar; * an increased number of
Mexican examples to reflect the growing interest in this country's
variety of Spanish; * new information for readers studying Spanish
and French together; * a glossary of grammatical terms including
English translations of Spanish terms. The combination of reference
grammar and manual of current usage is invaluable for learners at
level B2-C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and
Intermediate High-Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
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