Basic Swedish A Grammar and Workbook [Hardcover]

Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbookcombines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish.

Each of the 25 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow.

The book introduces the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text that outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit.

Features include:

• clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and English
• vocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevance
• cross-references to other units
• over 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answers
• full vocabulary list at the end of the book.

The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by absolute beginners and those who have advanced a little further.

Preface - 1 What makes Swedish familiar? & and a few challenges - 2 Pronunciation - 3 Nouns  gender - 4 Introduction to verbs (present tense) and personal pronouns - 5 Word order  statements and questions - 6 Nouns  s-genitives and plurals - 7 Numerals, time expressions, days and months - 8 Word order  position of elements in the main clause - 9 Pronouns  personal, possessive and indefinite - 10 Demonstrative pronouns - 11 Verbs  infinitives; two-verb constructions; future forms; imperatives - 12 Word order  short answers; postponing the subject - 13 Adjectives  indefinite forms and ilƒ7