Part I: Presenting the Present Tense.

Chapter 1: Springing into Action with Spanish Verbs.

Chapter 2: Warming Up with Regular Verbs in the Present Tense.

Chapter 3: Constructing Commands and Other Verb Structures.

Chapter 4: Popping the Questions.

Chapter 5: Coming and Going with Venir and Ir.

Part II: Exploring Some Exceptional Exceptions.

Chapter 6: Declaring Your Likes and Dislikes with Gustar.

Chapter 7: Being All That You Can Be with Ser and Estar.

Chapter 8: Wrestling with Some Irregular Formations.

Part III: Working Out with the Remaining Simple Tenses.

Chapter 9: Looking Back with the Preterit and Imperfect Tenses.

Chapter 10: Looking Ahead with the Future Tense.

Chapter 11: Mastering the Big If with the Conditional Tense.

Chapter 12: Getting Wishy-Washy with the Subjunctive Mood.

Chapter 13: Conveying Uncertainty about the Past with the Imperfect Subjunctive.

Part IV: Coping with Irregular Verbs.

Chapter 14: Dealing with Present Irregularities.

Chapter 15: Confronting Irregularities in the Preterit Tense.

Chapter 16: Unveiling Irregularities in the Imperfect, Future, and Conditional Tenses.

Chapter 17: Mastering Subjectivity with the Irregular Present Subjunctive.

Part V: Getting Help with the Helping Verb Haber.

Chapter 18: Presenting the Present Perfect.

Chapter 19: Going Back in Time with the Pluperfect and the Preterit Perfect.

Chapter 20: Speaking of Lost Possibilities, the Future, and Probability.

Chapter 21: Speculating with the Present Perfect Subjunctive.

Chapter 22: Expressing Doubts about the Past with the Pluperfect Subjunctive.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 23: Ten Spanish Idioms You Can Shake a Stick At.

Chapter 24: (More Than) Ten Verbs for Special Occasions.

Chapter 25: Answers to the Ten Most Common Questions about Spanish.

Chapter 26: Avoiding Ten Common Spanish Verbs Mix-ups.

Part VII: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Spanish/English Glossary.

Appendix B: English/Spanish Glossary.

Appendix C: Common Irregular Present and Past Participles.

Index.