WRITING EXERCISES

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This page will link you to exercises covering specific aspects of Italian grammar. These exercises ask you to translate sentences from English into Italian; there are also cloze passages where you supply the correct part of the verbs into a passage of Italian.

1. Exercise 1A — present tense (regular verbs)
2. Exercise 1B— present tense (reflexive verbs)
3. Exercise 1C— present tense (common irregular verbs)
4. Exercise 1D — present tense (all types of verb)
5. Exercise 2A — past tense (passato prossimo)
6. Exercise 2B — past tense with pronouns.
7. Exercise 3 — the verb piacere
8. Exercise 4a — imperfect tense.
9. Exercise 4b — imperfect tense (two cloze passages)
10. Exercise 5a — future tense
11. Exercise 6 — revision of tenses; partitive article; possessive adjectives.
12. Exercise 7 — conditional mood (present and past)
13. Exercise 8 — modal verb "potere"
14. Exercise 8a — modal verb "potere" — using the subjunctive mood.
15. Exercise 9 — modal verb "dovere"
16. Exercise 10 — modal verb "volere"
17. Exercise 10a — volerci