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Italian Verbs For Dummies

Italian Verbs For Dummies


By Teresa L. Picarazzi

ISBN: 978-0-471-77389-4
Format: Paper
Pages: 304 Pages
Pub. Date: September 2006

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Price: $16.99
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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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