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Title: Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

Author: C. A. Toledano

Release Date: February 21, 2005 [EBook #15127]

Language: English and Spanish

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PITMAN'S COMMERCIAL SPANISH GRAMMAR

BY

C. A. TOLEDANO

1917

PREFACE

With the best intention of justifying Messrs. PITMAN'S confidence in
entrusting me with the compilation of a Spanish Grammar to form part of
the series of "Commercial Grammars," I set to work to produce a book
which, while avoiding pedantry and the agglomeration of superfluous and
intricate rules which puzzle the student, should equally avoid falling
into the extreme of coarseness which debases the subject under study, or
the scrappiness resulting in gaps that perplex and discourage him. I
have tried to be brief and clear in the rules given.

The vocabulary has been chosen carefully, avoiding the artificiality of
too much commercial technology, but keeping constantly in view the
object of the Series, viz., to produce grammars specially suitable for
students preparing for a commercial career.

Whether I have succeeded in my efforts it is for the public to judge. I
can only say that, after more than twenty-five years' teaching of
Spanish in all its stages, privately, at the Manchester University and
in the large classes of our public Institutions, I have tried my best to
give the fruits of my experience to any interested young people who may
be eager to learn a language beautiful, noble, and most us