Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions

by Dorothy Richmond

Book Overview

Learn Spanish through practice, practice, practice For over a decade, this has been the go-to workbook for study and mastery of the tricky pronouns and prepositions of the Spanish language. Now... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844273112
• ISBN13: 9780844273112
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Spanish Practice Tool

Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions is a great book for practicing these often forgotten parts of speech that are critical for achieving fluency in Spanish. 14 units, 3-12 pages each, each cover a different use of pronouns in Spanish, and prepositions (especially por and para) likewise receive extensive coverage. Each unit opens with a bit of reading, but the practice starts quickly. The book's translation exercises are especially valuable for learning vocabulary and forming sentences in context. The answers to all the exercises are in the back, so you can get instant feedback on how well you are doing.I've noticed a problem with this text, however. While each unit includes at least several exercises, I feel that this is often not enough to gain a firm understanding of the material. With so many different uses of pronouns, for example, it is easy to forget the one done six units ago. And since the text teaches the uses of so many different prepositions, more practice with them would be helpful. As a result, I believe this book could be improved by including additional exercises in each unit, plus several review translation exercises that incorporate the content of multiple units.Even with this minor problem, this book is easily the best workbook that I've seen for learning Spanish pronouns and prepositions. And for $10, it's tough to go wrong (Spanish workbooks inferior to this that are used in my college cost $20-30 or more). Go ahead, buy it!

A great reference book with useful exercises

This workbook masters two important grammatical concepts that present difficulty for Spanish students. Thanks to the clarity and thoroughness of the text-workbook, students and those looking to perfectionize specific weaknesses in their understanding of pronouns and prepositions will immediately recognize that this book is an excellent resource. It is well organized, first tackling pronouns of all categories then prepositions with a strong emphasis on "por" and "para". Each chapter offers a clear explanation of the topic at hand, followed by a wide variety of examples of its usage, ample practice exercises and a practical translation at the end of every chapter. Once having completed the exercises, there is an answer key at the back of the book which is extremely beneficial in that the student can readily identify his/her strengths and weaknesses. As a Spanish teacher, I found this text and the exercises to be a useful supplemenatary study aid that enables Spanish students at all levels to fortify their knowledge and understanding of the grammatical topics covered in the book. This workbook can also be an eternal reference. This is definitely a worthy purchase and very economical considering the wealth of information that is offered. A strong recommendation is given, this a great grammar resource.

Just Fabulous! My Favorite of 6 Workbooks that I own.

Stuck on por and para? Her explanations are so terrific that I could take a quiz in her book and not only get all 30 correct, but even be able to cite her "rule" for using the correct one. I have been struggling with por and para for 6 months and she is the first to make it crystal clear.The exercises are simply superb. Her explanations make things really clear, then you get to practice, practice, practice. As she moves through the book, she sprinkles in the things you learned in previous chapters, so you get to review again and again. She uses lots of vocabulary and even provides it for you so you don't have to be looking it up constantly. This books will really clarify pronouns and prepositions for you, but it will do much more, too, with all the vocabulary and sentence structure that you will get to practice.The book is well laid out, has lots of room to write in the answers, and has all the answers in the back. You will NEVER get a better value for your money than this book. I have 6 workbooks that I am working through, but I decided to finish this one completely before working further in any of the others because it is so wonderful.This page is full of glowing reviews, but I couldn't resist writing another because this book really deserves it!

Simply A Superb Workbook!!! Better than all the rest!!

This review is going to be really simple. I completed the Spanish course at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. But I couldn't have done it without this book.It is hands-down the best one on the market for Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions. And WHAT A VALUE!!!What's best? The authors leave enough space to write in the book. And at this price, you will want to write all over it. I have had less luck with workbooks that ask for a paragraph, but make you enter it in your own notebook.Also there is a good glossary at the end of the book so you can easily look up unknown words without having to lug your dictionary around. I can't say enough good. Buy it.

The absolute best!

This book and the other Practice-Makes-Perfect workbook by Dorothy Richmond ("Spanish Verb Tenses") are the best Spanish books I've ever used. I just got back from 2 years in the Peace Corps in Honduras and I studied these books every day. They REALLY helped me learn more Spanish! In addition to the concise, easy-to-understand instruction sections, there's tons of exercises to do (with the correct answers in the back of the book) and as I did the exercises, I picked up all kinds of things that I'd been wondering how to say. I also liked this workbook a lot because it covered all those difficult things I never understood before, like how to use "lo que..", direct and indirect object pronouns, the passive voice, the difference between "para" and "por", and many other things. (This book is especially great if you already know some Spanish because you need some vocabulary to do the exercises, unless you don't mind looking up lots of words in the dictionary.) I highly recommend this book!