Basic Welsh A Grammar and Workbook [Paperback]

Basic Welsh: A Grammar and Workbookcomprises an accessible grammar handbook and related exercises in a single volume.

The book presents forty grammar units, covering the core materials which beginning students would expect to encounter in the course of learning Welsh. User-friendly grammar points are followed by multiple examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.

Key features include:

• Clear, accessible format
• Many relevant and useful examples
• A wide range of challenging exercises to reinforce learning
• Concise and jargon-free explanations of grammar
• Full answer key, glossary of technical terms and Welsh-English, English-Welsh glossary at the back of the book

Revised throughout, this updated second edition of Basic Welsh provides the ideal practice book for all beginning students in the language. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.

Introduction

1 Identification sentences: question words Pwy?, Beth?; identifiers hwn, hon; hwnna, honna; y rhin, y rheina

2 Nouns and noun plurals

3 The verb to be: present tense statements (AFF) and questions (INT)

4 The present tense of bod: NEG forms

5 Mutations: Soft Mutation

6 The definite article: the&

7 The genitive construction: the X of Y etc.

8 Adjectives

9 The present tense of verbs

10 Other auxiliaries with the VN; requests

11 The complement marker yn + noun/adjective

12 Personal pronouns; word order; third-person singular rule

13 Want and would like

14 Aspirate and Nasal Mutation

15 Possessive adjectives: his&l"