Tutor: Gioia Panzarella G.Panzarella@warwick.ac.uk

Textbook

Grammar Book: De Rôme, Soluzioni. A practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian. Routdledge, 2015 (Third Edition). ISBN 978-1138018488

Syllabus

The grammar hour revises and extends students’ command of grammatical structures. We reserve the right to modify and supplement the syllabus during the semester.

Term 1

Week 2: Introduction. Suffixes (chapter 6, Soluzioni)

Week 3: Noun-Article-Adjective. Forms and agreements (chapters 1,2,3)

Week 4: Past Tenses (I) Auxiliaries, passato prossimo vs passato remoto (chapter 20)

Week 5: Past Tenses (II) Passato prossimo vs imperfetto (chapter 20)

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Present tenses (chapter 18); Future tenses (chapter 19);

Week 8: The subjunctive (I) (chapter 24)

Week 9: Personal pronouns (chapter 7); indefiniti (chapter 12)

Week 10: The conditional (chapter 21)

Term 2

Week 1: Comparatives and superlatives (chapter 5)

Week 2: The subjunctive (II) If-clauses and other conditional forms (chapter 24)

Week 3: Past Tenses (III) Trapassati and espressioni di anteriorità (chapter 20)

Week 4: Relative pronouns (chapter 13)

Week 5: Passive forms (chapter 26); other verb constructions (chapter 25)

Week 6: Reading week

Week 7: Non-finite verb forms (chapter 23)

Week 8: Connectives (chapter 16);

Week 9: Demonstratives (chapters 9); possessives (chapter 8)

Week 10: Revision

Term 3

Week 1: Adverbs (chapter 4); interrogatives (chapter 10)

Week 2: Drop-in sessions (details TBC)