Portuguese Verbs & Essentials of Grammar 2E.

Overview

Main description

The all-in-one resource to sharpen your Portuguese verb and grammar skills

In addition to providing essential concepts regarding verbs and grammar, this new edition of the Portuguese Verbs & Essentials of Grammar includes a brand-new feature: an index of the 300 most popular verbs, which can be cross-referenced with the numerous verb tables appearing throughout the book. This all-in-one language tutorial contains lots of examples employing contemporary language to give you a taste of real-life situations. Each unit focuses on a single verbal or grammatical concept, providing concise yet comprehensive explanations.

Table of contents

Part One: Portuguese Verbs
1. Pronunication
2. Regular Verbs- Indicative Tenses
3. Perfect(compound Tenses)
4. Progressive Tenses
5. Refleive Verbs
6. Formation of the Subjunctive
7. Uses of the Subjunctive
8. Irregular Verbs
9. Ser, Estar, and Ficar
10. Ter and Havar
11. Radical-Changing Verbs
12. Orthographic-Changing Verbs
13. Commands(Imperatives)
14. The Passive Voice
15. The Personal Infinitive
16. Verbs Followed by a Preposition
17. Idiomatic Verbs

Part Two: Essentials of Grammar
18. Articles
19. Nouns
20. Adjectives and Adverbs
21. Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
22. Object Pronouns
23. Relative Pronouns
24. Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives
25. Negatives, Interrogatives, and Exclamations
26. Todo and Tudo, Ambos and Cada
27. Prepositions
28. Por and Para
29. Suffixes
30. Time
31. Numerals
32. Letters
33. Idioms
34. Vocabulary Lists
Verb Index
Index

Author comments

Sue Tyson-Ward is an experienced teacher of Portuguese.