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• Title:A new reference grammar of modern Spanish / John Butt, Carmen Benjamin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Butt, John, 1943-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Benjamin, Carmen.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Call Number: PC4112 .B88 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: PC4112 .B88 2011
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Spanish language--Grammar.
  Spanish language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
  
• Genre/Form:Textbooks.
  
• Edition:5th ed.
  
• Description:xii, 591 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:For many years "A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish" has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish. Key features include: a guide to the book, enabling you to make the most of this new edition; a new vocabulary including topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish; more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage; a new Glossary of computing and telephone terminology; and advice on the Royal Spanish Academy's latest spelling rules. You can be sure that the fifth edition of "A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish" will provide you with 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. -- From publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: New York : McGraw-Hill, 2004.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781444137699 (pbk.)
  1444137697 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Gender of nouns
  Plural of nouns
  Articles
  Adjectives
  Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
  Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  Neuter article and neuter pronouns
  Possessive adjectives and pronouns
  Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns
  Numerals
  Personal pronouns
  Le/les and lo/la/los/las
  Forms of Spanish verbs
  Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms
  Continuous forms of the verb
  The subjunctive
  The imperative
  The infinitive
  Participles
  The gerund
  Modal auxiliary verbs
  Personal a
  Negation
  Interrogation and exclamations
  Conditional sentences
  Pronominal verbs
  Verbs of becoming
  Passive and impersonal sentences
  Ser and estar
  Existential sentences
  Adverbs
  Expressions of time
  Conjunctions and discourse markers
  Prepositions
  Relative clauses and relative pronouns
  Nominalizers and cleft sentences
  Word order
  Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes
  Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division
  Glossary of grammatical terms
  Glossary of computing and telephone terminology.