Paola Nanni-Tate - Italian Verb Tenses

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It is with profound gratitude that I acknowledge the expert and patient guidance of Garret Lemoi, my editor at McGraw-Hill Education, during the months I have been assigned the task of writing Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses. Writing this book has been a very pleasant endeavor because of Mr. Lemois kindness, patience, and experience. I also would like to thank my son, Eric, and my husband, Bob, for looking over the books units.

Most of all I would like to thank all the students who will be using this book. It is for them that I have been so keen on writing it. It is my profound hope that this book will help them to improve their level of competence in the beautiful Italian language.

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses is designed to improve the skills and knowledge of beginning to intermediate students of Italian. Learning how to conjugate verbs correctly is a difficult task in every language but more so in Italian because of the many tenses and irregular verbs. Correctly conjugating a verb is a very important part of speaking and writing well, but one must also understand the need to use one verb over another and the reason for choosing each verb.

It can be difficult; however, with time, dedication, practice, and consistency one can achieve excellent results. Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses was written with all student levels in mind and with the desire to help make learning Italian verbs and this beautiful language a little easier. Each unit is complete with explanations and exercises that reinforce the learning of each tense. By following the lessons and completing the exercises, students will progress in their knowledge and understanding of Italian. For this new second edition, a Final Review unit has been added for even more practice. The short stories included at the end of each unit are designed to show students how to use the verbs in everyday situations.

Each story is followed by a vocabulary list to help students understand its content. New to this third edition are additional complementary resources available via the McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app. All vocabulary lists are provided as flashcards for study and review; review exercises will test your progress; and streaming audio recordings provide native-speaker answers for more than 100 exercises throughout the book. Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses, with its concise explanations and extensive practice material, will help students strengthen their skills in the Italian language.

There is some basic terminology you must be familiar with when studying Italian verbs. Infinitive: The infinitive is the basic form of the verb as you find it in the dictionary.

In English it is expressed as: to + verb (to eat, to sing, etc.). In Italian all infinitives end in -are (cantare, to sing; parlare, to speak; etc.), -ere (leggere, to read; vedere, to see; etc.), or -ire (sentire