501 English Verbs with CD-ROM

by Beyer Jr., Thomas R.

• ISBN13: 9781438073026
• ISBN10: 143807302X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-06-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Services

Summary

The new third edition of Barron's 501 English Verbscomes with an enclosed CD-ROM that offers valuable practice exercises in verb conjugation and a concise grammar review. The book presents the most common regular and irregular English verbs alphabetically arranged in table form, one verb per page, and completely conjugated in all tenses. The book also reviews rules of grammar applicable to verb usage, provides a list of hundreds more regular verbs, offers tips on idiomatic verb usage, lists 550 problem verbs with their principal parts, and presents an index to the verbs that includes their irregular forms. A newly revised section of Phrasal Verbs offers 55 essential forms with multiple example sentences. Here's a valuable fast-reference source for ESL students and all students of English grammar.

Author Biography

Thomas R. Beyer Jr. earned a B.S. in Russian from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Slavic Literatures from the University of Kansas. For the past 35 years,he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of more than a dozen books to learn Russian and has executed several translations of the Russian writer Andrei Bely. Considered an expert on Russian writers in emigration in Germany and the United States, Professor Beyer has lectured extensively in Russia, Germany, and the United States. For the past few years he has offered seminars on the works of Dan Brown, designed to permit students and readers to separate fact from fiction.