?Eso es!: Breve gramática para la comunicación - Softcover

Capitulo 1. Review of basics 1.1 Review of the present indicative tense: Regular, stem-changing, and irregular verbs 1.2 Gender of nouns and the definite and indefinite articles 1.3 The personal a 1.4 Interrogatives 1.5 Ademas... Words for designating workers and employees En resumen Capitulo 2. Ser, estar and haber (hay) 2.1 Ser 2.2 Estar 2.3 Ser or estar before an adjective 2.4 Hay, ser, and estar Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to realize En resumen Capitulo 3. Adjectives 3.1 Agreement of nouns and adjectives 3.2 Placement of adjectives 3.3 Different meanings of certain adjectives according to their placement 3.4 Placement of two or more adjectives 3.5 Using the prounoun lo + adjective 3.6 Ademas... Different meanings of certain nouns according to gender En resumen Capitulo 4. Reflexive verbs and verbs used reflexively 4.1 Reflexive verbs 4.2 The reflexive to express reciprocity 4.3 Reflexive and non-reflexive meanings 4.4 Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to become En resumen Capitulo 5. Third-person verbs 5.1 Third-person verbs 5.2 Third-person verbs with se to express involuntary occurrences 5.3 Ademas... Pero, sino, sino que, and no solo...sino que En resumen Capitulo 6. Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 6.1 Unstressed possessive adjectives 6.2 Stressed possessive pronouns and adjectives 6.3 Demonstrative adjectives 6.4 Demonstrative pronouns 6.5 Neuter demonstrative pronouns 6.6 Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to support and to stand (tolerate) En resumen Capitulo 7. Adverbs 7.1 Adverbs ending in -mente 7.2 Adverbs of manner 7.3 Adverbs of place 7.4 Adverbs and adverbial phrases of time 7.5 Adverbs of quantity 7.6 Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to take En resumen Capitulo 8. Comparisons and superlatives 8.1 Unequal comparisons 8.2 Equal comparisons 8.3 Superlatives 8.4 Ademas... Differences and similarities En resumen Capitulo 9. Direct and indirect object pronouns 9.1 Direct object pronouns 9.2 Indirect object pronouns 9.3 Double object pronouns 9.4 Special uses of the pronoun lo 9.5 Ademas... Spanish verbs indicating on and off En resumen Capitulo 10. The impersonal se and the passive voice 10.1 The impersonal se 10.2 The passive se 10.3 True passive voice 10.4 Ademas... False cognates En resumen Capitulo 11. The imperfect and the preterite 11.1 The imperfect tense 11.2 The preterite tense 11.3 Verbs with different meanings in the preterite and the imperfect 11.4 Preterite and imperfect 11.5 Ademas... Words relating to time En resumen Capitulo 12. Progressive tenses and hace...que to refer to time 12.1 Formation and use of the progressive tenses 12.2 Placement of object pronouns with progressive forms 12.3 Hace que and alternative to refer to time 12.4 Ademas... Expressions with hacer En resumen Capitulo 13. The future and the conditional tenses and probability 13.1 The future tense: Uses and formation 13.2 The conditional tense: Uses and formation 13.3 The future of probability 13.4 The conditional of probability 13.5 Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to move En resumen Capitulo 14. The perfect tenses 14.1 The present perfect tense: Uses and formation 14.2 The pluperfect tense: Uses and formation 14.3 The future perfect tense: Uses and formation 14.4 The conditional perfect tense: Uses and formation 14.5 The perfect infinitive 14.6 Ademas... Expressions with dar and darse En resumen Capitulo 15. The prepositions por and para 15.1 Uses of por 15.2 Verbs followed by por 15.3 Uses of para 15.4 Ademas... Idiomatic expressions with por En resumen Capitulo 16. Verbs followed by the prepositions a, con, de, en 16.1 Verbs followed by the preposition a 16.2 Verbs followed by the preposition con 16.3 Verbs followed by the preposition de 16.4 Verbs followed by the preposition en 16.5 Ademas... Numbers En resumen Capitulo 17. Imperatives and indirect commands 17.1 Affirmative and negative commands with Ud. and Uds. 17.2 Affirmative and negative commands with tu 17.3 Nosotros commands 17.4 Indirect commands 17.5 Ademas... Places of work En resumen Capitulo 18. The subjunctive: Function and forms 18.1 The subjunctive mood: An introduction 18.2 The present subjunctive 18.3 The present perfect subjunctive 18.4 The imperfect subjunctive 18.5 The pluperfect subjunctive 18.6 Sequence of tenses 18.7 Ademas... Set phrases with the subjunctive En resumen Capitulo 19. Uses of the subjunctive I 19.1 The subjunctive to express influence, indirect command, request, or necessity 19.2 The subjunctive to express emotion or judgment 19.3 Ademas... Expressions with meter En resumen Capitulo 20. Use of the subjunctive II 20.1 The subjunctive to express doubt, disbelief, and possibility 20.2 Affirmatives and negatives 20.3 The subjunctive with negative and indefinite antecedents 20.4Ademas... Idiomatic expressions with affirmatives and negatives En resumen Capitulo 21. Use of the subjunctive III 21.1 The subjunctive to express future events 21.2 The subjunctive to express purpose 21.3 Ademas... Spanish verbs that mean to run En resumen Capitulo 22. Use of the subjunctive IV 22.1 The subjunctive with a pesar de que, aunque, and indeterminate expressions 22.2 The subjunctive in the como si clause 22.3 The subjunctive in if (si) clauses 22.4 Ademas... Idiomatic expressions with echar En resumen Capitulo 23. Relative pronouns 23.1 The relative pronouns que and quien(es) 23.2 The relative pronouns el que and el cual 23.3 Relative pronouns following prepositions 23.4 The relative pronouns cuyo and donde 23.5 Use of lo que and lo cual 23.6 Ademas... Diminutives and augmentatives En resumen Capitulo 24. Infinitives and Gerunds 24.1 Review of the uses of the infinitives 24.2 The infinitive used as a noun 24.3 Other uses of the present participle 24.4 Ademas... Adjectives that end in -ing in English En resumen Appendixes: 1. Verbs. 2. Answers to Actividades. 3. Spanish-English Vocabulary Index

An invaluable resource for intermediate Spanish students, this flexible, modular approach to Spanish grammar serves not only as a complete grammar review, but also as a reference book and a practice manual. A practical worktext presented in 24 chapters, !Eso es! is designed either for use with the reader Exploraciones, or as an independent reference text for a composition, conversation, or reading/literature course.