This is not a simplified study, but rather a selected grammar for adult use that points out many time-saving shortcuts.
Learn objective, simple, everyday communication in the shortest amount of time with a Portuguese grammar course that can be used alone either as a beginner or as a refresher course or as an ideal supplement to a phrase book or record course for home study or class use. No prior knowledge of either Portuguese grammar or grammatical terms is needed.
All grammatical rules are illustrated with phrases and sentences that you can incorporate directly into your working vocabulary, and hints are generously sprinkled throughout, showing you how to replace difficult constructions with simpler ones. One section is devoted to the definition of all grammatical terms used in the book.
Constantly drawing comparisons with English construction, it presents in logical order all the significant aspects of Portuguese grammar: word order, forming questions, nouns and articles, adjectives and adverbs, possessives, demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, how to form negatives, personal pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions, how to conjugate verbs in the major tenses, prepositions and infinitives, and so on. Four appendices cover regular conjugations, orthographic-changing verbs, and irregular verbs. Glossary of grammatical terms. Index.
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