Danesi - Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar

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Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar focuses on topics of importance to intermediate- to advanced-level learners.

By concentrating on areas of grammar for making more complex, meaningful sentences and conversations, the book is designed to improve the ability to communicate effectively in Italian at higher levels. Practice Makes Perfect is, thus, geared toward those who have already learned the basics of grammar, focusing on topics that consistently need to be practiced in an in-depth manner by non-beginning learners. The book covers topics that often prove difficult for English speakers when they learn Italian, such as the correct use of object pronouns. Numerous practical exercises give students the opportunity to test what they have learned. There are twenty chapters covering everything from the formation and use of nouns to the structure of sentences and clauses. Each chapter is designed to deal with a topic of grammar as completely as possible.

Each chapter presents the main points related to a topic. Each point is followed by an Esercizio. Along the way, information boxes provide further detail on some topics, offer tips, or introduce related vocabulary. At the back of the book, there are Italian-English and English-Italian glossaries (containing all the words and expressions used in the book), irregular verb charts, and the answers to all the exercises. This handbook is designed as a reference grammar for intermediate or advanced learners with a large practice componentthere are over 300 distinct exercise questions consisting of various types and parts. As they say, practice makes perfect.

It can also be used as a textbook in intermediate courses of Italian, since it contains the same kinds of information and exercises that are normally found in such courses and in more elaborate formal textbooks. The difference is that this book takes nothing for granted. As mentioned, it contains many sidebars throughout to clarify, supplement, or complement a topic. This feature will allow you to stay within the confines of this single book. You will not need to resort to other materials. Although it is review grammar, very little has been taken for granted! This Premium Second Edition presents several new features.

At the end of each chapter is a Grammar in culture section that links a grammar topic to culture or usage, with a related exercise. This section underscores the relevance of grammar to the study of culture. In addition, extensive support materials are available in the McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app: Flash cards comprising all vocabulary used in this book An auto-fill glossary (a digital version of the glossaries at the back of this book) Audio recordings of the Answer key for exercises with complete-sentence answers in Italian. With the mobile version of this app, you can record your own answers, then replay them alongside the native-speaker recordings. Buon divertimento!

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Garret Lemoi of McGraw-Hill for his superb editing and encouragement, not to mention his wonderful advice. I also thank Grace Freedson for her support and help.

I am truly grateful to her.

Simple Italian sentences, like English sentences, are composed of a subject, a verb, and an object. The subject consists of a noun or noun phrase. It is what the sentence is about and around which the rest of the sentence revolves. The subject is, more generally, the performer of some action. Many types of objects also consist of a noun (or noun phrase).