Modern Brazilian Portuguese grammar : a practical guide / John Whitlam.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Series: | Routledge modern grammars
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| Format: | Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to this book
- Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese
- Glossary of grammatical terms
- Part A: Structures (1. Pronunciation and spelling ; 2. Gender and gender agreement ; 3. Number and number agreement ; 4. Articles ; 5. Adjectives and adverbs ; 6. Numbers and numerical expressions ; 7. Personal pronouns ; 8. Demonstratives ; 9. Possessives ; 10. Relative pronouns ; 11. Interrogatives ; 12. Exclamations ; 13. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns ; 14. Negatives ; 15. Regular verb expressions ; 16. Semi-regular and irregular verbs ; 17. Gerunds, past participles, compound perfect tenses and the passive ; 18. Use of the tenses ; 19. The infinitive ; 20. The subjunctive ; 21. The imperative ; 22. Reflexive verbs ; 23. Ser, estar and ficar ; 24. Verbs used in auxiliary, modal and impersonal constructions ; 25. Prepositions ; 26. Conjunctions ; 27. Word order ; 28. Word formation)
- Part B: Functions ([I: Social contact and communications strategies] 29. Making social contacts ; 30. Basic strategies for communication ; [II: Giving and seeking factual information] 31. Asking questions and responding ; 32. Negating ; 33. Reporting ; 34. Asking and giving personal information ; 35. Identifying people and things ; 36. Describing ; 37. Making comparisons ; 38. Expressing existence and availability ; 39. Expressing location and distance ; 40. Expressing possessive relations ; 41. Expressing changes ; 42. Expressing cause, effect and purpose ; [III: Putting events into a wider context] 43. Expressing knowledge ; 44. Remembering and forgetting ; 45. Expressing obligation and duty ; 46. Expressing needs ; 47. Expressing possibility and probability ; 48. Expressing certainty and uncertainty ; 49. Expressing supposition ; 50. Expressing conditions ; 51. Expressing contrast or opposition ; 52. Expressing capability and incapability ; 53. Seeking and giving permission ; 54. Asking and giving opinions; 55. Expressing agrrement, disagreement and indifference)
- Part B [cont.] ([IV: Expressing emotional attitudes] 56. Expressing desires and preferences ; 57. Expressing likes and dislikes ; 58. Expressing surprise ; 59. Expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction ; 60. Expressing hope ; 61. Expressing sympathy ; 62. Apologizing and expressing forgiveness ; 63. Expressing fear or worry ; 64. Expressing gratitude ; [V: The language of persuasion] 65. Giving advice and making suggestions ; 66. Making requesst ; 67. Giving directions, instructions and orders ; 68. Making an offer or invitation and accepting or declining ; [VI: Expressing temporal relations] 69. Talking about the present ; 70. Talking about the future ; 71. Talking about the past)
- Appendices (1: Regular verb forms ; 2: Principal irregular verbs ; 3: Verbs with irregular past participles ; 4: Verbs with both a regular and an irregular past participle ; 5: Second person verb forms)
