Complete Italian Grammar »

Marcel Danesi teaches Italian at the University of Toronto.

Build up your Italian grammar skills and communicate with ease

The only way to boost your confidence in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. From the present tense of regular verbs to direct object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all aspects of Italian grammar that you need to master.

Focusing on the practical aspects of Italian as it's really spoken, each unit of Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar features clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and lots of engaging exercises.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar makes mastering grammar easy with:

• Clear, down-to-earth, easy-to-follow explanations that make even the most complex principles easy to understand
• Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point
• Dozens of exercises in formats suited to every learning style
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary used throughout
• A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks

With help from this book, you can effortlessly use:

Possessive adjectives • Relative pronouns • Gerunds • Expressions of time • The passive and the impersonal Si
• The subjunctive mood
• Question words

Preface Acknowledgments

1. Nouns and titles
Common nouns Gender patterns Spelling adjustments in the plural Mass nouns Proper noum=ns and titles

2. More about nouns
More gender patterns Nouns of Greek orgin Other types of nouns Altered nouns Compound nouns

3. Articles
The indefinite article The definite article Uses of the definite article
4. Adjectives
Descriptive adjectives Invariable adjectives Position Form-changing adjectives Comparison of adjectives

5. Pronouns
Subject pronouns Object pronouns Stressed pronouns Other pronouns

6. More pronouns
Object pronouns with compound tenses Double pronouns Attached pronouns

7. Demostrative
The demostrative of nearness The dmonstrative of farness Demonstrative pronouns Indicating words and expressions

8. Possessives
Possessive adjective forms The third -person forms Possessives with kinship nouns Possessive pronouns

9. Partitives
Partitives with count nouns Alternative forms Partitives with mass nouns Adjectives indicating quantity

10. Present tenses
The present indicative of regular verbs Irregualar verbs in the present indicative The present subjunctive of regular verbs Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive Special uses of the subjunctive

11. Past tenses
The present perfect Irregular past participles The past subjunctive The past absolute Irregular verbs in the past absolute

12. The imperfect and pluperfect tenses
The imperfect indicative The imperfect subjunctive The pluperfect tenses

13. The progressive tenses
The gerund The present progressive tenses The imperfect progressive tenses

14. The future and conditional tenses
The future the future perfect The conditional (present and past)
Hypothetical sentences

15. The imperative
Regular forms of the imperative The negative imperative Irregular forms

16. Reflexive verbs
Forms Compound tenses Imperative forms

17. Prepositions and adverbs
Preopsitional contractions Uses of the prepositions Adverbs of manner Other kinds of adverbs

18. Sentences
Interrogative sentences Question words Negative sentences Objects Conjunctions and relative pronouns The ordinal numbers Numerical expressions Dates

20. Miscellaneous topics
The verb piacere The passive and the impersonal si Other topicsIrregular verb tables Italian - English glossary English - Italian glossary Answer key

Marcel Danesi teaches Italian at the University of Toronto.