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Soluzioni! : A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
Focusing on the essentials, Soluzioni! is an accessible grammar guide for all beginners of Italian. This comprehensive handbook provides Italian grammar-at-a-glance, using numerous tables to help facilitate learning and reviewing. Complemented by an appealing visual layout, Soluzioni! uses real language examples to help expand students' vocabulary knowledge, while plenty of varied and imaginative exercises show how the grammar works in practice.
330 pages, Paperback
First published November 29, 2002
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October 21, 2025
This book seems to be a complete grammar — and although it does contain a lot, it is hard to work with.
Firstly, it is difficult to find anything: there’s no cross-referencing of Italian/English grammatical terms (eg. congiuntivo - see subjunctive) because when learning a language you learn the grammar terms in that language, not in English.
Another thing is that "Lei" (2nd Person formal) is sometimes written with and sometimes without a capital letter. This is confusing for learners, and I think a grammar book (of all things) should stick to correct capitalised "Lei" in order to avoid confusion with the third person singular “lei”.
One annoying problem (and to be honest there is hardly a grammar book out there which covers this issue in detail) is that there is no clear focus on the stress patterns of the verbs, sometimes it is mentioned in passing, but usually not present at all!
The layout of the book is quite good, but certain grammatical structures don’t have their own section: conditional sentences, for example, are scattered throughout the book making it very hard to to compare the differences between them all.
The examples and exercises are useful but the answers aren’t in the book, you have to download a pdf.
Worst of all, the book and pdf with the answers still (in the 4th edition) contain obvious errors and typing mistakes!
It could have been a good resource but unfortunately it has too many flaws.
Firstly, it is difficult to find anything: there’s no cross-referencing of Italian/English grammatical terms (eg. congiuntivo - see subjunctive) because when learning a language you learn the grammar terms in that language, not in English.
Another thing is that "Lei" (2nd Person formal) is sometimes written with and sometimes without a capital letter. This is confusing for learners, and I think a grammar book (of all things) should stick to correct capitalised "Lei" in order to avoid confusion with the third person singular “lei”.
One annoying problem (and to be honest there is hardly a grammar book out there which covers this issue in detail) is that there is no clear focus on the stress patterns of the verbs, sometimes it is mentioned in passing, but usually not present at all!
The layout of the book is quite good, but certain grammatical structures don’t have their own section: conditional sentences, for example, are scattered throughout the book making it very hard to to compare the differences between them all.
The examples and exercises are useful but the answers aren’t in the book, you have to download a pdf.
Worst of all, the book and pdf with the answers still (in the 4th edition) contain obvious errors and typing mistakes!
It could have been a good resource but unfortunately it has too many flaws.
November 23, 2009
I marked this as "read" but will continue to read it indefinitely.
It's a very well designed, readable, and (so far as I can tell) comprehensive guide to Italian grammar. Whenever I want to plow into another area of Italian grammar I'm always happy to pick up this book.
It's a very well designed, readable, and (so far as I can tell) comprehensive guide to Italian grammar. Whenever I want to plow into another area of Italian grammar I'm always happy to pick up this book.
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