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| Introduction | |
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| Suggestions for Vocabulary Building | |
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| Similarities between English and Italian Vocabulary | |
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| Word Order | |
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| How to Form Questions | |
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| Interrogative Words | |
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| Nouns and Articles | |
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| Gender of Italian Nouns | |
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| The Definite Article | |
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| Plurals of Nouns | |
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| Irregularities in Noun Plurals | |
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| Noun Suffixes | |
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| Hints on the Identification of Gender | |
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| Masculine and Feminine Forms of the Same Noun | |
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| Common Prepositions and the Definite Article | |
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| The Indefinite Article | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Agreement of Adjectives with Nouns | |
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| Forms of Adjectives | |
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| Position of Adjectives | |
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| Special Forms of Bello, Buono, Grande | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Comparisons of Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Comparisons of Inequality | |
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| Irregular Comparative Forms | |
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| The Absolute Superlative | |
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| The Word "Than" | |
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| Comparisons of Equality | |
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| Expressing Possession | |
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| Possessive Adjectives | |
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| Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns | |
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| Demonstrative Adjectives | |
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| Questo and Quello as Pronouns | |
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| The Pronoun Cio | |
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| Personal Pronouns | |
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| Subject Pronouns | |
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| Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns | |
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| Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns with the Same Verb | |
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| Stressed Forms of the Personal Pronouns | |
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| How to Avoid the Use of Double Pronouns | |
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| Table of Personal Pronouns | |
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| Negatives | |
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| Che, Cui, Chi | |
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| Che as Conjunction | |
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| Che as Relative Pronoun | |
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| The Relative Pronoun Cui | |
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| The Interrogative Pronoun Chi | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Comparison of English and Italian Verbs | |
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| The Three Conjugations | |
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| The Present Tense | |
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| Comparison of Present Tense in English and Italian | |
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| First Conjugation | |
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| Second Conjugation | |
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| Third Conjugation | |
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| The Present Tense of Commonly Used Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Progressive Present | |
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| The Present Participle | |
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| The Use of Stare | |
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| The Imperative or Command Form | |
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| Third Person Command Forms | |
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| First Person Plural Commands | |
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| Familiar Command Forms | |
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| Review Table of Command Forms | |
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| The Present Perfect Tense | |
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| The Past Participle | |
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| The Helping Verbs Avere and Essere | |
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| The Present Perfect of the Model Verbs | |
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| The Past Definite Tense | |
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| The Past Definite of the Model Verbs | |
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| The Past Definite of Irregular Verbs | |
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| Common Irregular Past Definites | |
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| The Past Definite of Essere and Dare | |
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| The Imperfect Tense | |
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| The Imperfect Tense of the Model Verbs | |
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| The Imperfect Tense of Essere | |
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| The Uses of the Imperfect Tense | |
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| The Pluperfect Tense | |
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| The Pluperfect Tense of the Model Verbs | |
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| Use of the Pluperfect Tense | |
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| The Future Tense | |
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| The Future Tense of the Model Verbs | |
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| The Future Tense of Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Uses of the Future Tense | |
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| The Conditional Mood | |
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| The Conditional of the Model Verb Parlare | |
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| The Conditional of Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Uses of the Conditional | |
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| The Subjunctive Mood | |
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| Tenses of the Subjunctive | |
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| The Present Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Uses of the Subjunctive | |
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| Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Comparison of Reflexive Verbs in English and Italian | |
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| The Present Tense of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| The Present Perfect Tense of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| The Command Form or Imperative of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Important Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Uses of the Reflexive | |
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| The Passive Voice | |
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| Prepositions and Infinitives | |
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| Verbs Followed Directly by the Infinitive | |
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| Verbs Followed by a or di before the Infinitive | |
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| The Present Participle and the Infinitive | |
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| Idiomatic Constructions | |
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| The Verb Piacere | |
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| The Verb Fare | |
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| The Verb Avere | |
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| The Verbs Essere and Stare | |
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| C'e and Ci sono | |
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| Aver bisogno and Bisognare | |
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| The Verb Volere | |
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| The Verbs Dare and Andare | |
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| The Verbs Sapere and Conoscere | |
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| Some Useful Expressions | |
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| A Glossary of Grammatical Terms | |
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| The Parts of Speech | |
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| Words about Verbs | |
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| Words about Nouns | |
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| Miscellaneous Terms | |
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| The Parts of the Sentence | |
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| Index | |