Edith R. Farrell - Side-By-Side Spanish and English Grammar, 3rd Edition

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Side by Side Spanish & English Grammar presents the essential elements of Spanish grammarusually covered in a high school program or in the first year of college Spanishside by side with their English counterparts. Side by Side Spanish & English Grammar has been used in both high school and college Spanish classes, and even in some English classes for a few students who were having trouble in understanding their English grammar text. Side by Side Spanish & English Grammar has been used in both high school and college Spanish classes, and even in some English classes for a few students who were having trouble in understanding their English grammar text.

Its vocabulary is, for the most part, limited to the most frequently used Spanish words. It has been used as 1. a reference book for beginning students, for whom the standard works are too complex to be useful. This allows students a means for independent inquiry. 2. 3. a means of helping a student in a new school catch up with the class. 4. a means of organizing or summarizing material presented in the primary text, especially for students whose learning style favors an organized approach. 5. a means of providing a common background for talking about language with students who have studied English in different ways, so that their study of Spanish will show them something about how language works, one of the expectations of many college language requirements. 6. an alternative method of explaining grammatical points in both English and Spanish to relieve the classroom teacher of the task. an alternative method of explaining grammatical points in both English and Spanish to relieve the classroom teacher of the task.

Special features of the book that students will find useful include 1. a standard format that introduces each part of speech and answers the most common questions about it. 2. Quick Check charts that allow students to express themselves with more confidence, since they can independently check their sentences against a model. 3. 4. an exercise section that tests understanding of the main grammatical areas covered in the book, plus Using your Spanish, a section new to this edition, that prepares students for communication in Spanish. an exercise section that tests understanding of the main grammatical areas covered in the book, plus Using your Spanish, a section new to this edition, that prepares students for communication in Spanish.

We hope that this text will provide ways for students to increase their independent work and to adapt material to their own learning styles and situations.

I remain thankful, as I know my late wife, Edith R. Farrell, would, to our colleague, formerly at the University of Minnesota, Morris: Dr. Stacy Parker Aronson, who read the manuscript of this book; and David Stillman, who compiled the exercise section. Preliminary studies on which Side by Side French & English Grammar, the companion volume of this book, was based were supported in part by a grant from the Educational Development Program of the University of Minnesota. This book grew out of a series of supplements to a Spanish grammar text.

Its purpose is to help you learn Spanish more easily. Many students have had trouble with foreign languages because they have not looked carefully enough, or critically enough, at their own. Struggles with your own language took place at such an early age that you have forgotten the times when it seemed difficult. Now it seems perfectly natural to you, and it is hard to adapt to different ways of expressing ideas. The material in this book has been classified and arranged to show you English and your new language side by side. You may be surprised at how many grammatical elements are similar in the two languages.

Information that is the same for both English and Spanish is usually not repeated on facing pages. If you find that a section is omitted under the Spanish, look to your left and find it on the English page. The English meaning of a Spanish example is usually on the left-hand page, too. Why grammar? People can speak, read, or write their native language, at least to a reasonable degree, without studying formal grammar (the rules governing how we say, change, and arrange words to express our ideas). Just by being around other speakers, we hear millions of examples, and the patterns we hear become a part of us. Even babies start with correct basic patterns (subject-verb-object), even though words may be missing or incorrect: Me wants cookie! Knowledge of grammar helps a great deal, though, in testing new and more complex words or patterns and in analyzing ones writing to discover where a sentence went wrong or how it could be more effective.

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