Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns And Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

This book covers all situations and the subtleties of usage in a concise and very easy to follow manner.

Every chapter builds on the previous with numerous exercises and passages for translation.

Everything is explained in detail.

I found this book invaluable


Another winner   June 15, 2004
N. Wood (London, UK)
54 out of 55 found this review helpful

I bought this book, already owning "Practice makes perfect: Spanish verb tenses" and both books are of equally high value.

Pronouns are amongst the key elements to conversational Spanish and knowledge of pronouns is crucial to Spanish sentance construction! Amongst many other things, they enable talking without constant repetition (I saw the food, then I ate the food but I didn't like the food because the food was bad etc...).

As with my previous purchace, this book helps to explain the "rules" in a clear and logical way, helping the reader to gain a detailed understanding of the different sets of pronouns and how they feature in converrsation.

Each new rule is explained simply with many accompanying excersizes to assist memorization and the learning curve is set at a consistant pace.

For those looking for a precise breakdown of Pronouns and prepositions and how each device is incorporated into everyday language, get this.

Don't be put off by the seemingly specific nature of the book if you are new to the Spanish. Learning the underlying structure of Spanish has been a great way to start learning, much more beneficial than the "starter guides" that are available, which seem to tend towards the "Una cervesa por favor", without helping the student to understand what it is that they are saying.

I have only been learning Spanish for four months and between this book, "PmP: Verb Tenses" and a pocket dictionary, I feel that I am progressing at a consistant rate and have no major questions that this combination of books isn't able to address.

BUY IT!


Worth buying for the section on "Por y Para" alone!   May 9, 2003
Dashwood2 (Cambridge, UK)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful

This book is the perfect partner to any Spanish Course textbook you might be using at school/college. It is the only book that has been able to teach me the correct usage of Por and Para and I would like to thank the author for that. The only thing I don't like is the use of American-English.


supercharge your spanish   June 19, 2004
simon gurney
41 out of 42 found this review helpful

Spanish Pronouns and Preposition is an excellent learning resource for students of spanish at any level, and this along with the companion verb book are amongst the most useful spanish books you can find, i would highly recommend the purchase of both.
The books are workbook style, and are very well constructed, each chapter deals with an idividual area, introducing each new idea clearly and concisely and then an excericise to prcatice the new knowledge, quite often there are some interesting little features of the excercises which really help to emphasise the point.
The book serves well as an accompaniment to a course or as a stand alone teaching guide, and is very clear especially as regards the grammar, the voise of an experinced teacher shines through. it is possible to approach this book from start to finish, although it is also possible to pick out individual chapters as needed.
This book feels very complete, and is one of the most complete guides to the mechanics underlying the spanish language.