Aurelio M. Espinosa
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 397
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Excerpt from Elementary Spanish Grammar With Practical Exercises for Reading, Conversation, and Composition This book is, as the title indicates, an elementary grammar. The attempt has been made to present in a clear and logical manner the important principles only. The book furnishes enough material in Spanish grammar, texts, conversation, and composition for one year of college and two years of high school work, granting that about one half of the time be given to the reading and translation of literary texts. In high school work the authors recommend that the work of the first year end with Lesson XXX. The exercises, which are of a practical character, have been prepared with the greatest care and in accordance with modern pedagogical principles. They are in the form of connected, practical, and interesting dialogues, descriptions and narratives concerning school, city and country life, and ordinary business transactions. In the last four lessons they are exclusively of a commercial character, thus furnishing a good beginning in Spanish commercial practice and correspondence. The exercises are abundant and the teacher can use them in various ways. He may make frequent reviews; change the subject pronouns in the texts; add conversational exercises both for oral and written work, based on the texts; or reproduce from day to day the subject matter of the previous lesson. With young students it may be well to leave the composition exercises for review work. The oral exercises may at first be taken as composition for written work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.