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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: Getting Your Bearings with the Basics 5
Chapter 1: Greetings! Getting to Know You 7
Chapter 2: Embedded Gender and Number: Nouns and Articles 19
Chapter 3: Putting Two and Two Together: Numbers, Dates, and Time 33
Part 2: Verbs as Building Blocks 45
Chapter 4: Noting to Be or to Have with Essere and Avere 47
Chapter 5: Forming the Present 61
Chapter 6: Going and Coming with Irregular Verbs 73
Part 3: Building Beautiful Sentences: Parts of Speech 87
Chapter 7: Enriching Adjectives and Adverbs 89
Chapter 8: Comparisons and Superlatives 103
Chapter 9: Prepositions, and Then Some 113
Chapter 10: La Mia Famiglia: Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns 127
Chapter 11: Asking with Interrogatives; Pointing Out with Demonstratives 139
Part 4: More Verb Tenses 149
Chapter 12: Glancing Back at the Past: The Passato Prossimo 151
Chapter 13: Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect 167
Chapter 14: Looking Ahead: The Future Tense 183
Chapter 15: Commanding and the Imperative 195
Chapter 16: Forming and Using Conditional Verbs 211
Chapter 17: Everyday Communication with Reflexives 223
Part 5: The Part of Tens 237
Chapter 18: Ten Practice Dialogues for When You’re Out and About in Italy 239
Chapter 19: Ten Common Word Swaps to Avoid 251
Part 6: Appendixes 255
Appendix A: English-Italian Dictionary 257
Appendix B: Italian-English Dictionary 261
Index 265
