Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar

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PrefaceAcknowledgments
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 tablesItalian - English glossaryEnglish - Italian glossaryAnswer key