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This best-selling textbook guides advanced students through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language in order to write more effectively and confidently. The accompanying companion website-included with the book-offers fully integrated exercises to use alongside the text. Features * A colorful design that helps students navigate the book more easily and engage visual learning strategies * Readings for major composition exercises that stress authentic, connected discourse * Streamlined treatment of points of grammar, including an explanation for more than twelve functions of se with a rule of subject reflexivization For Instructors: To request a digital exam or desk copy, instructors should log onto VitalSource.com, select Faculty Sampling in the upper right-hand corner, and select the book.

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Author:   M. Stanley Whitley ,  Luis Gonzalez
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
Imprint:   Georgetown University Press
Edition:   tercera edicion
ISBN:  

9781647122201

ISBN 10:   1647122201
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   02 August 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   Spanish

Table of Contents

Introduccion: To the Student Leccion preliminar (L. 0): Ortografia y puntuacion Capitulo I: La descripcion Leccion 1: El presente de indicativo y el infinitivo Leccion 2: La flexion de sustantivos, articulos y adjetivos Leccion 3: Los verbos copulativos Leccion 4: La conjuncion, la negacion, la ubicacion y las preguntas Leccion 5: El uso del diccionario Leccion 6: Composicion: la descripcion Capitulo II: El reportaje Leccion 7: El sujeto, el objeto directo y los reflexivos Leccion 8: Los pronombres personales Leccion 9: El objeto indirecto Leccion 10: El presente de subjuntivo y el imperativo Leccion 11: El discurso indirecto, las clausulas sustantivas y el modo Leccion 12: Composicion: El reportaje y las instrucciones Capitulo III: La narracion Leccion 13: El preterito y el imperfecto: su formacion Leccion 14: Preterito vs. imperfecto: su funcion Leccion 15: El pasado de subjuntivo Leccion 16: Los adverbiales de manera y tiempo Leccion 17: La gramatica de la narracion Leccion 18: Composicion: La narracion personal Capitulo IV: La narracion compleja Leccion 19: El participio y los tiempos perfectos Leccion 20: El futuro y el condicional Leccion 21: Las clausulas adverbiales y condicionales Leccion 22: El gerundio y los progresivos Leccion 23: El tiempo y los tiempos Leccion 24: Composicion: La narracion compleja Capitulo V: La exposicion Leccion 25: La frase sustantiva y la referencia Leccion 26: Las clausulas relativas Leccion 27: Los numeros Leccion 28: La sustantivacion y el neutro Leccion 29: La comparacion Leccion 30: Composicion: La exposicion Capitulo VI: La argumentacion Leccion 31: Las preposiciones Leccion 32: Cambios de estructura: el enfasis Leccion 33: Cambios de estructura: el desenfasis (impersonalidad) Leccion 34: Conectores Leccion 35: La clausula sustantiva y su reduccion al infinitivo Leccion 36: Composicion: La argumentacion Capitulo VII: Lecciones facultativas Leccion 37: Las abreviaturas Leccion 38: La derivacion Leccion 39: Repaso de vosotros Apendices Apendice A: Distinciones problematicas Apendice B: Distinciones: ejercicios Apendice C: Resumen de la conjugacion del verbo Apendice D: Glosario bilingue e indice de materias Bibliografia Creditos

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A comprehensive text for upper-intermediate Spanish composition courses that is complemented by online, student-oriented materials . . . A resource that can be used beyond the scope of the class for which it is assigned and can remain an active part of students' libraries long after the class is finished. * Hispania *

Author Information

M. Stanley Whitley is professor emeritus of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics, Second Edition (Georgetown University Press, 2002), coauthor of Teaching Spanish Grammar with Pictures: How to Use William Bull's Visual Grammar of Spanish (Georgetown University Press, 2010), and coauthor of Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM (Georgetown University Press, 2004). Luis H. Gonzalez is a professor of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He is a co-author of Gramatica para la composicion and the author of Como entender y como ensenar por y para, Four Dichotomies in Spanish: Adjective Position, Adjectival Clauses, Ser/Estar, and Preterite/Imperfect, and The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker.

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