As I read the reviews in the preface of the book, I became encouraged and excited to read the book for myself, as the reviews stated that the grammar not only taught the beginning concepts of Hebrew, but it also gave students exegetical exercises so that they can apply the material they have just read.
I appreciated the fact that explanations were given for why vowels were needed in order to learn how to pronounce Hebrew words. Native Hebrew speakers do not need the vowels (non-native speakers need to know how to pronounce the Hebrew words so vowel markings called "diacritics are added above and below the consonants.)
Exegetical exercises are provided for practice - the first chapter (which covers the alphabet, pronunciation, vowels, syllables, accent stress and vocabulary) has exercises in which :
1. The alphabet is covered
2. Dividing words into syllables
3. Learning what an acrostic is - "an acrostic is a Hebrew poem in which each successive verse or stanza begins with the next successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet You will begin learning about acrostics by eading books in the Psalms using the English Bible and the Hebrew Stuttgartensia and seeing what Hebrew letters the verses start with and how many start with a specific Hebrew letter.
This is a very thorough textbook, you will learn all of the grammatical rules that are necessary to translate the Hebrew text using a lexicon, and other supplemental materials. You will have a varied amount of practice after each lesson, and at the completion of the book you should know as much as a second year Hebrew student.