Intermediate Swedish

A Grammar and Workbook

Ian Hinchliffe, Philip Holmes (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-77959-4 (ISBN)

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Intermediate Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible intermediate reference grammar and related exercises in one volume that covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their second year of learning Swedish. The book follows on naturally from and complements its companion volume, Basic Swedish.

Each of the 26 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow.

The book presents the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text which outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and, in nearly all cases, 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.

The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by intermediate students and those who have grasped the basics of grammar and vocabulary.

Ian Hinchliffe is a translator based in Sweden and has previously taught Swedish at universities in the UK as well as in Norway. Philip Holmes is Reader Emeritus in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Hull, UK, and is now a translator and language editor.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Intonation, sentence stress, word stress and accent

Pronunciation, assimilation; ‘French’ g– and j–; spelling of words in –m, –n

Nouns, article use

Nouns, irregular plural, plurals in –er or –ar?; count and non-count, collective

Adjectives, definite declension Types 3, 4

Adjectival nouns; nationality words

Pronouns, reflexive possessives hans/sin

Verbs, irregular weak verbs, r-stem verbs

Verbs, strong verbs, minor series

Verbs, use of tenses

The infinitive in Swedish and English

Verbs, transitive, intransitive and reflexive

Verbs, past participles and the passive, position of passive agents

Time expressions prepositions

Pronouns, interrogative, relative and determinative

Translating ‘that’

Translating the verb ‘to be’ and some other English verbs

Adverbs, amplifiers and ju, nog, väl, nämligen

Preposition or no preposition in Swedish or English, translating ‘of’

Pronouns and adverbs in main clauses and sub clauses: ingen/inte någon

Present participles

Particle verbs

Word order, subordinate clauses with main clause order, main clauses with sub clause order

Word order, unstressed object pronouns

Word order, duplication, emphasis and ellipsis

Word formation

Diderichsen’s Sentence Model

Key to Exercises

Glossary of grammatical terms

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Grammar Workbooks
Zusatzinfo	30 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-77959-8 / 1138779598
ISBN-13	978-1-138-77959-4 / 9781138779594
Zustand	Neuware