This convenient worktext gives students a unique approach to learning, remembering, and reviewing how to use Spanish verbs correctly. The book provides a systematic presentation and review of Spanish verb forms and explains when and why a certain verb tense should be used. "Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses" includes an impressive number of exercises and open-ended questions, numerous conjugation charts, a list of verbs and their prepositions, and Spanish-English and English-Spanish vocabulary lists.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Present Tense UNIT 1: Conjugation of Regular Verbs UNIT 2: Ser and Estar UNIT 3: Hay UNIT 4: Tener UNIT 5: The Personal a UNIT 6: A Dozen Highly Useful Irregular Verbs UNIT 7: Saber and Conocer UNIT 8: Stem-Changing Verbs UNIT 9: Noteworthy Infinitives UNIT 10: Reflexive Verbs UNIT 11: Gustar et al. UNIT 12: The Present Progressive Part II: The Past, Future, and Conditional Tenses UNIT 1: The Preterite Tense UNIT 2: The Imperfect Tense (includes progressive mood) UNIT 3: The Future Tense UNIT 4: The Conditional Tense UNIT 5: The Present Perfect Tense UNIT 6: The Past Perfect Tense Part III: The Imperative, Subjunctive, and Compound Tenses, and the Passive Voice UNIT 1: The Imperative UNIT 2: The Present Subjective UNIT 3: The Imperfect Subjunctive UNIT 4: The Future Perfect UNIT 5: The Conditional Perfect UNIT 6: The Present Perfect Subjunctive UNIT 7: The Pluperfect Subjunctive UNIT 8: The Passive Voice

About the Author

Dorothy Richmond is an experienced teacher of Spanish and successful author of Spanish language-learning grammars.