| Introduction.
Part I: Speaking of the Present.
Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Verbs.
Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense.
Chapter 3: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs.
Chapter 4: Shakespeare, Italian Style: To Be or Not to Be; To Have and Have Not.
Chapter 5: Waking Up to Reflexive Verbs.
Chapter 6: Giving a Command(ing) Performance with the Imperative.
Chapter 7: Declaring Your Likes (and Dislikes) with Piacere.
Part II: Looking to the Past and the Future.
Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect Tense.
Chapter 9: Reckoning Back to the Old Days: The Past Absolute Tense.
Chapter 10: Che Sarà Sarà: Looking Ahead with the Future Tense.
Chapter 11: Could-ing and Would-ing: The Conditional Tense.
Chapter 12: Getting into the Present Subjunctive Mood.
Chapter 13: I’d Like for You to Understand the Imperfect Subjunctive.
Part III: Building Compound Tenses.
Chapter 14: Starting with the Present Perfect.
Chapter 15: What Time Did You Get Up Today? Reflexive Verbs in the Past.
Chapter 16: By Tomorrow, You’ll Have Spoken of a Perfect (or Hypothetical) Future.
Chapter 17: Second Guessing Your Actions with the Past Conditional.
Chapter 18: Reminiscing about the Past Perfect.
Chapter 19: I Hope That You’ve Had Fun! The Past Subjunctive.
Chapter 20: Wrapping Up the Subjunctive with the Past Perfect.
Part IV: Reviewing a Few Underappreciated Tenses and Forms.
Chapter 21: Hypothetically Speaking: “If” Clauses throughout the Tenses.
Chapter 22: Putting a Personal Touch on the Impersonal and the Passive.
Chapter 23: Progressing in Italian through Gerunds.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 24: Ten Most Frequently Used Verbs.
Chapter 25: Ten Italian Verbs Most Frequently Mixed Up.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Italian-to-English Glossary.
Appendix B: English-to-Italian Glossary.
Appendix C: Ten Common Irregular Verbs.
Index.
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