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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- How to use this book -- Glossary -- 1 Accentuation -- 1.1 General written accentuation rules in Spanish -- 1.2 Diacritic accent -- 1.3 Vowel combinations -- 1.4 Accents with enclitic pronouns -- 1.5 Accents on upper case vowels -- 1.6 Diaeresis -- 2 Nouns -- 2.1 Natural gender -- 2.2 Grammatical gender -- 2.3 Number -- 2.4 Collective nouns -- 2.5 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes -- 3 Articles -- 3.1 The definite article -- 3.2 The indefinite article -- 4 Qualifying adjectives -- 4.1 Agreement in gender and number -- 4.2 Shortened forms and change of meaning -- 4.3 Comparison of adjectives -- 4.4 The superlative -- 4.5 Comparison of adverbs, nouns and verbs -- 5 Personal pronouns -- 5.1 Subject pronouns -- 5.2 Forms of address -- 5.3 Direct object pronouns -- 5.4 Indirect object pronouns -- 5.5 Object pronouns with prepositions -- 5.6 Order of object pronouns -- 6 Demonstratives -- 7 Possessives -- 7.1 Possessive adjectives -- 7.2 Possessive pronouns -- 8 Numerals -- 8.1 Cardinal numbers -- 8.2 Ordinal numbers -- 8.3 Collective numbers and fractions -- 9 Indefinites -- 10 Adverbs -- 11 Interrogatives -- 12 Prepositions -- 13 Interjections -- 14 The Spanish verb -- 15 Impersonal forms of the verb -- 15.1 The infinitive -- 15.2 The gerund -- 15.3 The past participle -- 16 Present tenses of the indicative -- 16.1 The present simple -- 16.2 The present continuous -- 17 Future tenses of the indicative -- 17.1 The future with ir a -- 17.2 The future simple -- 17.3 The future continuous -- 17.4 The future perfect -- 18 Past tenses of the indicative -- 18.1 The imperfect -- 18.2 The imperfect continuous -- 18.3 The preterite -- 18.4 Choosing between the preterite and the imperfect -- 18.5 The perfect -- 18.6 The perfect continuous -- 18.7 The pluperfect -- 18.8 The pluperfect continuous