| Introduction | 7 |
| Suggestions for Vocabulary Building | 11 |
| Similarities between English and Italian Vocabulary | 12 |
| Word Order | 14 |
| How to Form Questions | 15 |
| Interrogative Words | 16 |
| Nouns and Articles | 18 |
| Gender of Italian Nouns | 18 |
| The Definite Article | 18 |
| Plurals of Nouns | 19 |
| Irregularities in Noun Plurals | 20 |
| Noun Suffixes | 21 |
| Hints on the Identification of Gender | 21 |
| Masculine and Feminine Forms of the Same Noun | 22 |
| Common Prepositions and the Definite Article | 23 |
| The Indefinite Article | 23 |
| Adjectives | 25 |
| Agreement of Adjectives with Nouns | 25 |
| Forms of Adjectives | 25 |
| Position of Adjectives | 26 |
| Special Forms of Bello, Buono, Grande | 27 |
| Adverbs | 30 |
| Comparisons of Adjectives and Adverbs | 32 |
| Comparisons of Inequality | 32 |
| Irregular Comparative Forms | 33 |
| The Absolute Superlative | 33 |
| The Word "Than" | 34 |
| Comparisons of Equality | 35 |
| Expressing Possession | 36 |
| Possessive Adjectives | 36 |
| Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns | 38 |
| Demonstrative Adjectives | 38 |
| Questo and Quello as Pronouns | 39 |
| The Pronoun Cio | 40 |
| Personal Pronouns | 41 |
| Subject Pronouns | 41 |
| Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns | 42 |
| Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns with the Same Verb | 44 |
| Stressed Forms of the Personal Pronouns | 44 |
| How to Avoid the Use of Double Pronouns | 45 |
| Table of Personal Pronouns | 45 |
| Negatives | 49 |
| Che, Cui, Chi | 51 |
| Che as Conjunction | 51 |
| Che as Relative Pronoun | 51 |
| The Relative Pronoun Cui | 51 |
| The Interrogative Pronoun Chi | 52 |
| Conjunctions | 53 |
| Verbs | 54 |
| Comparison of English and Italian Verbs | 54 |
| The Three Conjugations | 54 |
| The Present Tense | 55 |
| Comparison of Present Tense in English and Italian | 55 |
| First Conjugation | 55 |
| Second Conjugation | 56 |
| Third Conjugation | 56 |
| The Present Tense of Commonly Used Irregular Verbs | 58 |
| The Progressive Present | 59 |
| The Present Participle | 59 |
| The Use of Stare | 59 |
| The Imperative or Command Form | 59 |
| Third Person Command Forms | 60 |
| First Person Plural Commands | 61 |
| Familiar Command Forms | 61 |
| Review Table of Command Forms | 62 |
| The Present Perfect Tense | 62 |
| The Past Participle | 63 |
| The Helping Verbs Avere and Essere | 63 |
| The Present Perfect of the Model Verbs | 64 |
| The Past Definite Tense | 65 |
| The Past Definite of the Model Verbs | 65 |
| The Past Definite of Irregular Verbs | 66 |
| Common Irregular Past Definites | 67 |
| The Past Definite of Essere and Dare | 67 |
| The Imperfect Tense | 68 |
| The Imperfect Tense of the Model Verbs | 68 |
| The Imperfect Tense of Essere | 69 |
| The Uses of the Imperfect Tense | 69 |
| The Pluperfect Tense | 71 |
| The Pluperfect Tense of the Model Verbs | 71 |
| Use of the Pluperfect Tense | 72 |
| The Future Tense | 72 |
| The Future Tense of the Model Verbs | 72 |
| The Future Tense of Irregular Verbs | 73 |
| The Uses of the Future Tense | 74 |
| The Conditional Mood | 75 |
| The Conditional of the Model Verb Parlare | 75 |
| The Conditional of Irregular Verbs | 76 |
| The Uses of the Conditional | 76 |
| The Subjunctive Mood | 77 |
| Tenses of the Subjunctive | 77 |
| The Present Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs | 79 |
| The Uses of the Subjunctive | 80 |
| Reflexive Verbs | 81 |
| Comparison of Reflexive Verbs in English and Italian | 81 |
| The Present Tense of Reflexive Verbs | 81 |
| The Present Perfect Tense of Reflexive Verbs | 82 |
| The Command Form or Imperative of Reflexive Verbs | 82 |
| Important Reflexive Verbs | 82 |
| Uses of the Reflexive | 83 |
| The Passive Voice | 84 |
| Prepositions and Infinitives | 84 |
| Verbs Followed Directly by the Infinitive | 84 |
| Verbs Followed by a or di before the Infinitive | 85 |
| The Present Participle and the Infinitive | 85 |
| Idiomatic Constructions | 86 |
| The Verb Piacere | 86 |
| The Verb Fare | 87 |
| The Verb Avere | 89 |
| The Verbs Essere and Stare | 89 |
| C'e and Ci sono | 90 |
| Aver bisogno and Bisognare | 90 |
| The Verb Volere | 90 |
| The Verbs Dare and Andare | 91 |
| The Verbs Sapere and Conoscere | 91 |
| Some Useful Expressions | 92 |
| A Glossary of Grammatical Terms | 94 |
| The Parts of Speech | 94 |
| Words about Verbs | 97 |
| Words about Nouns | 101 |
| Miscellaneous Terms | 102 |
| The Parts of the Sentence | 102 |
| Index | 105 |