Easing Into Modern Hebrew Grammar: A User-Friendly Reference and Exercise Book, 2 Volumes
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Easing into Modern Hebrew Grammar is written for students of Modern Hebrew who are looking for easy-to-understand explanations of Hebrew grammar in English. The book includes easy-to-understand explanations of Hebrew grammar in English, with examples in Hebrew with English translations. The chapter on full spelling has been updated in accordance with the new guidelines of the Hebrew Language Academy. Highly recommended as an accompaniment to classroom, online or independent study and as a guide for teachers.
The topics covered are those studied at the beginning and intermediate levels. Advanced students and teachers will also find the book an important reference tool. Easing into Modern Hebrew is ideal both as an accompaniment to classroom study and as a basis for independent study of Modern Hebrew grammar.
The book features:
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- Features ample exercises with answers for self-check
- Serves as an accompaniment to classroom study and for independent study of Modern Hebrew grammar
- Includes easy-to-understand explanations of Hebrew grammar in English, with examples in Hebrew with English translations
- Basic Concepts
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Smeechoot: Noun-Noun Phrases
- Double Poessessives
- Pronouns and Pointing Words
- Prepositions
- Numbers and Quantifiers
- Adverbials
- Making Comparisons: Comparatives, Superlatives and the Like
- Patterns of Verbs: The Seven Beenyaneem
- Signs of Tenses and Forms: Past, Present, Future, and Infinitive
- Regular Verbs in the Seven Beenyaneem
- Verbs with Guttural Consonants
- Special Root Groups
- Command Forms (Imperatives)
- Meanings and Beenyaneem
- Basic Concepts: Sounds and Syllables
- The Pronunciation of 'פ ,'כ ,'ב and the Dagesh
- Reduction of Vowels and the Shva
- Hebrew Spelling: Selected Issues
- What Is a Sentence?
- Verb Sentences
- Non-Verb Sentences
- Sentences with יש and איןׁ
- Sentences with Infinitives
- Impersonal Sentences with ּכְַדאי, מּותָר, אֶפְׁשָר and Their Personal Counterparts
- Negation and Negative Expressions
- Asking Questions
- Sentences And, Or, But, and the Like
- Adding Clauses
- Defining Three Types (“Categories”) of Sentences
- When?: Time Sentences
- Why?: Reason and Result Sentences
- In Order To: Sentences that State an Intended Purpose
- In Spite Of: Contrary to Expectation Sentences
- Similarity and Difference: Sentences of Comparison
- What If: Conditional Sentences