Excerpt from Essentials of Spanish Grammar As the author's Spanish Grammar published nearly ten years ago, has met with such marked favor with teachers of Spanish and still continues to hold its own, it was thought that a book along the same lines but containing less detail and, in some respects, simpler in its general treatment, would prove acceptable to those whose classes can not devote to the study of Spanish the time necessary to a mastery of the larger work. With this end in view, an endeavor has been made, in the present work, to treat only such features of the grammatical mechanism of the language as are essential for the reading of ordinary Spanish. As the teaching of the older book is believed to be sound in every way, the same treatment has been adhered to and most of the same material has been used, but it has been recast and simplified in many ways. The exercises are new throughout and, where convenient, have been incorporated in the text where they properly belong. These exercises cover all the verbs, regular as well as irregular, and, in this respect, will doubtless be found to be an improvement. As there is already a sufficiency of available reading texts provided with vocabularies, and as most teachers naturally prefer to make their own selections, it was not deemed advisable to include any matter of that kind. The method of using the book will be determined by each teacher to suit his particular conditions. In classes of mature students most chapters can be taken in one or two lessons. For less advanced classes the chapters may be divided into three or even four parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.