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Spanish Grammar in Review (Language - Spanish) (Spanish Edition)

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Save your money and don't buy this book. There are other better spanish review book out there to buy. There are too many mistakes especially in the answer key. It is nice to have an answer key, but only if it accurate.

My version does indeed have an answer key. However, the answers and the exercises do not match up well. The answer key appears to be extremely badly edited or reviewed for accuracy...to the point of being almost useless. Which, of course, made me wonder what other parts of the book are inaccurate.....

I was excited about this book until I realized how "off" the answer key is.

Unless you have a live in Spanish teacher, don't waste your money on this workbook. The exercises are actually very good, but if you are like me, it will infuriate you to discover there is no answer key.
Duh, if I knew what my mistakes were, would I be wasting my money on a workbook? "Advanced Spanish Grammar" by Marcial Prado; "Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses" by Dorothy Richmond; and The "Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice" by Gordon and Stillman all have answer keys and all are EXCELLENT!

I agree with the other reviews! I was infuriated to buy this book and then realize it had no answer key. Don't waste your money.

This book would be a wonderful resourse if it had included an answer key for the exercises. I think it would rate 5 stars if this were the case. I love the layout, and the fact that the lessons are concise and well explained. But for one who is attempting to learn Spanish on their own, this book is useless without having an "answer key" or a Spanish teacher handy to check your answers.

I bought this book before beginning a government internship in Spain. It is potentially valuable to those who wish to be reacquainted with the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, particularly those of us who studied Spanish in high school but have not dealt with it since.
The problem is the answer key. The Revised Edition has one, but with countless errors and misprints.
My advice is to wait for yet another edition to appear which addresses these problems--until then spend your $15 elsewhere.

This is a hands-on book. It explains a point of grammar then provides an exercise that makes you put to work what you've just read by writing down answers. I took two years of Spanish in College, but then forgot about it for about 30 years, but now I'm going back and trying to review and remember all I once knew. This is an excellent book for doing that. However, the book presumes that one has a basic Spanish vocabulary. This is a grammar book, not a vocabulary building book. It does have a Spanish/English dictionary in the back. This book in combination with a book to expand one's Spanish vocabulary would be ideal.

I'm sorry but don't purchase from this amazon seller. My payment went through, and the book Spanish Grammar in Review was never sent to me. Please don't waste your money and time on this seller.

I was surprised to read tonight, 9-9-02, that two past reviewers were irritated because they thought that there was no answer key to Spanish Grammar in Review. There is an answer key. The ISBN # is 0844276723. The publisher is McGraw-Hill Companies. The decision not to include the answers with the text was an editorial choice--many teachers do not like for their students to have the answers to the exercises while they are doing their homework. However, for learners working alone an answer key obviously would be quite helpful.
Spanish Grammar in Review contains a well-organized, easily-comprehended review of the basic elements of Spanish grammar plus a carefully selected series of increasingly difficult practice exercises to verify comprehension and to increase retention of the material.
As a note of explanation of the 4 star rating of my own book, the computer program would not accept my explanation without a rating, so I gave the book 4 stars. I know that students have, can, and will in the future learn a lot with it.