Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning.
This comprehensive volume takes a grammatical approach which encourages students to familiarise themselves with the grammar points in each unit, using a wide variety of contemporary vocabulary that can be applied to different settings such as work, shopping, tourism, business, education and socialising.
Key features include:
- grammar exercises and a full answer key
- frequent comparative references to English grammar
- a list of key vocabulary at the end of each unit
- a glossary of grammatical terms
Providing readers with the essential tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations, Intermediate Portuguese is an essential resource for students with beginner to intermediate knowledge of the language and is suitable for both class-based learning and independent study.
Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning.
Introduction
Unit 1 Relative pronouns
Unit 2 The future tense
Unit 3 The conditional tense
Unit 4 The subjunctive mood
Unit 5 The past (or imperfect) subjunctive
Unit 6 The future subjunctive
Unit 7 The infinitive and personal infinitive
Unit 8 The present participle
Unit 9 The passive voice and the past participle
Unit 10 Verb haver
Unit 11 Impersonal and unipersonal verbs
Unit 12 Commands and the imperative mood
Unit 13 Direct and reported speech
Unit 14 Conjunctions
Unit 15 Prepositions
Unit 16 Perfect tenses in the indicative mood
Unit 17 Perfect tenses in the subjunctive mood
Unit 18 Compound infinitive and present participle
Unit 19 Using 'gente/a gente', 'ainda/já', 'tão/tanto', 'tudo/todo'
Unit 20 Auxiliary verbs
Unit 21 Versatile verbs
Unit 22 Revision
Glossary
Key to exercises
Cristina Sousa holds a PhD in literary translation. She is a translator, proofreader and copywriter and she has lectured in Portuguese Studies at various universities in the UK.
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