Practising Italian Grammar offers a comprehensive set of varied exercises for developing a greater practical awareness of the language. It is designed as a companion volume to A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian by Maiden and Robustelli, but it can also be used on its own by anyone wishing to improve their proficiency in Italian. The workbook includes examples of authentic Italian from journalistic and literary extracts, and from colloquial usage. The exercises are graded in terms of difficulty. Level 1 - revision of essential points, Level 2 - intermediate exercises, Level 3 - advanced exercises. A key to the exercises is provided making this workbook suitable for private study and classroom use.

Table of Contents

1 Spelling and pronunciation 2 Nouns and adjectives 3 Articles 4 Demonstratives 5 Personal pronouns 6 Relative structures 7 Interrogative structures 8 Indefinites and negative pronouns and adjectives 9 Possessives 10 Prepositions 11 Numerals 12 Adverbs 13 Forms of the verb 14 Uses of verb forms 15 Comparatives and superlatives 16 Aspects of sentence structure 17 Negative constructions 18 Conjunctions and discourse markers 19 Word derivation 20 Time expressions 21 Forms of address

Author Biography

Alessia Bianchi, Clelia Boscolo and Stephen Harrison are all at the Department of Italian, University of Birmingham, UK