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* review exercises with answer key
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Höhe: 149 mm
Breite: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-340-81094-1 (9780340810941)
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Emily Spinelli, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
Study Tips
Study Guide
Tips for Learning vocabulary
Tips for Learning Word Forms
1. What's in a Word?
2. What is a Noun?
3. What is Meant by Gender?
4. What is Meant by Number?
5. What are Articles?
6. What is the Possessive?
7. What is a Verb?
8. What is the Infinitive?
9. What is a Subject?
10. What is a Pronoun?
11. What is a Subject Pronoun?
12. What is a Verb Conjugation?
13. What are Auxiliary Verbs?
14. What are Affirmative and Negative Sentences?
15. What are Declarative and Interrogative Sentences?
16. What are Some Equivalents of "to be"?
17. What is Meant by Tense?
18. What is the Present Tense?
19. What is the Past Tense?
20. What is a Participle?
21. What are the Continuous Tenses?
22. What is meant by Mood?
23. What is the Subjunctive?
24. What is the Imperative?
25. What are the Perfect Tenses?
26. What is the Future Tense?
27. What is the Conditional?
28. What is meant by the Active and the Passive Voice?
29. What is an Adjective?
30. What is a Descriptive Adjective?
31. What is meant by Comparison of Adjectives?
32. What is a Possessive Adjective?
33. What is an Interrogative Adjective?
34. What is a Demonstrative Adjective?
35. What is an Adverb?
36. What is a Conjunction?
35. What is a Preposition?
36. What is a Conjunction?
37. What is a Preposition?
38. What are Objects?
39. What are Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns?
40. What are Object of preposition pronouns?
41. What are Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs?
42. What is a Possessive Pronoun?
43. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?
44. What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?
45. What is a Relative Pronoun?
46. What are Indefinites and Negatives?
Answer Key
Index
