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Directo al grano: A Complete Reference Manual for Spanish Grammar
Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Monmouth University
Gustavo Gac-Artigas

ISBN-10: 0130848018
ISBN-13: 9780130848017

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2000
Format: Paper; 154 pp
Published: 11/19/1999

Suggested retail price: $31.60
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For undergraduate courses in Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Spanish, including those focusing on grammar and composition.

An indispensable grammar reference book for life, this complete, student-friendly and totally self-learning guide for beginner as well as advanced students of Spanish offers a succinct, clear, and easy-to-consult format. Directo al grano answers all questions about the use of the Spanish language through concise, accurate and informative descriptions which cover all the complexity of specific grammatical points, as well as conjugated verbs. Saving students significant time when writing papers or reviewing for tests, helping to avoid persistent classroom interruptions, and greatly improving the teaching/learning experience, it presents each subject in only one chapter—making it easy to find any answer. This text also provides a series of charts and formulas that assure mastery of the language in the clearest, fastest, and most effortless way possible.

  • Directo al grano is clear, precise, self-explanatory, easy-to-follow, and student-friendly.

    • Helps students master the Spanish language—allowing them to move from level to level without lack of knowledge, and enabling them to review what they need to review at any time.

  • Its ease of use allows students to consult Directo al grano on their own when they have a grammar question.

    • Minimizes unnecessary classroom interruptions, making life easier for instructors by helping them teach the course as they want, without grammar questions interrupting the flow of teaching, or diverting other students' attention from the day's goals.

  • Right to the point—Each subject clearly contained within individual chapters. Each section begins with a definition of the concept in English and illustrates corresponding examples in Spanish; all chapters include the rules, the exceptions, uses and omissions, and most end with a summarizing chart for easy recall.

    • Enables students to find what they need to know, when they need to know it.

  • Concise, end-of-chapter charts— Summarizes the chapter topics; e.g., Chart #10: Subjunctive vs. Indicative (one of the most difficult concepts of Spanish for an English native speaker): here students are given, in only one page, the clues to decide whether to choose one mood or the other when they have a doubt while doing homework, writing a paper, or reviewing for a test—they will not need to go to see the professor during their office hours or have to browse several chapters of a textbook to find the answer.

    • Makes efficient, productive use of both the student's and the instructor's time.

  • An appendix of 266 conjugated verbs.

    • Provides students with an all-inclusive reference tool that covers not only the foundations of grammar, but essential conjugated verbs as well: regular, irregular, stem changing and reflexive verbs.



 1. Articles.


 2. Nouns.


 3. Adjectives.


 4. Adverbs.


 5. Pronouns.


 6. Verbs.


 7. Prepositions.


 8. Indefinites.


 9. Conjunctions.


10. Interrogative Words.


11. Exclamatory Words.


12. Accentuation.


13. Diphthongs and Triphthongs.


14. Syllabification.


Basic patterns you need to remember.


Appendix: Index of Verbs.


About the authors.

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