August Hjalmar Edgren

A Brief Spanish Grammar with Historical Introductions and Exercises August Hjalmar Edgren

This brief grammar is intended primarily for college-classes and such students generally as ,would begin readingS panish, without waste of time, on the basis of an accurate knowledge of the essentials of its grammar. It contains, therefore, a methodical survey of Spanish Pronunciation and Accidence (with exercises), Syntax, and Versification. For selfevident reasons, the pronunciation of Spanish is Explained, in the usual way, by the aid of English key-words, instead of phonetic rules. Kindred pronoun-groups are classified with reference to their real scientific distinction into tonic and atonic. Auxiliary verbs are classified and described with the irregular verbs, where they belong, and the so-called compound (i.e. periphrastic) conjugations are explained in a few brief paragraphs. To begin with what is very irregular in order to be able to devote pages to what is a simple syntactical combination involves needless confusion and loss of time, especially inS panish, with its periphrastic active, passive, and progressive conjugations, each having two or more auxiliaries. Especial care has been taken to make the chapter on verb-inflection both full and simple. It is hoped that the method of classification here adopted, reducing the number of irregular verbs to about thirty by conjugating all other verbs according to eight models (three leading, as usual, and five subordinate), will materially simplify a difficult and important topic.
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