501 English Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Language Guides) [Paperback]

T.R. Beyer Jr. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0764179853 | ISBN-13: 978-0764179853 | Edition: 2

ESL students quickly discover that knowing the meanings of commonly used verbs--then learning how to use them in all their many tenses and forms--is a vital part of becoming fluent in the new language. This brand-new edition of Barron's 501 English Verbs now comes with a bonus CD-ROM that offers helpful 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 bilingual list of hundreds more regular verbs, and offers tips on idiomatic verb usage. Tinted page-edge tabs offer language students quick alphabetical reference.

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From the Back Cover

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The 501 most common English verbs conjugated in all tenses and moods

Principal parts listed for all 501 verbs

Auxiliary verbs--have, be, do--and their uses

Common examples of phrasal verbs

550 problem verbs and their principal parts

Formation of the tenses

501 Verb drills and exercises

Index to the verbs, including irregular forms

A valuable quick-reference source for ESL students and all students of English grammar

Plus bonus CD-ROM with practice exercises in verb conjugation and grammar review

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764179853
• ISBN-13: 978-0764179853
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer Jr was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Xaverian HS. he is a graduate of Georgetown University (1969) and the University of Kansas (1974). For the past 35 years he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of over a dozen books to learn Russian, 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 separate fact from fiction.

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Needlessly complicated and filled with fluff, February 19, 2004

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This review is from: 501 English Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged (Barrons Educational Series) (Paperback)

I purchased this book to review for our language school's ESL program. Though it is a useful tool in presenting all of the complexities of the English verb, as a practical tool for ESL students I cannot recommend it. It is needlessly complicated in its format. The book contains unusual and infrequent English verbs, such as "to cleave", "to yes" or "to be hemmed." It even provides two conjugations for "to hide," one meaning to conceal and one meaning to beat. However, this difference is noted only at the bottom of the page. These sorts of verbs permeate this book. It seems that English has plenty of high frequency verbs that make inclusion of so many bizarre and passive voice verbs unnecessary. This book bears little resemblance to its excellent cousins in the series: 501 French or Spanish verbs.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incorrect Grammar, December 19, 2005

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This review is from: 501 English Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged (Barrons Educational Series) (Paperback)

My friend bought this book to help teach English and not only has it got some very strange verb formations in it, but ones that are totally wrong! We're surprised it has made it into the shops in fact. For example, it contains the verb 'to stink' and as one of its formations lists 'to be stunk'. We are both English and we have never heard of this, so it's misleading to someone learning English. There is even 'I am deep frozen'! This seems unnecessary, as it would surely never be said? It is thorough, but unfortunately much of it is wrong and would teach a foreign person to speak very odd English.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 501 English verbs, May 16, 2000

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Allen Norris - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 English Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged (Barrons Educational Series) (Paperback)

I learned French and Spanish using their equivalent... 501 French and 501 Spanish verbs....and now I buy this book and give it to new learners of English when I teach them. Gaining a command of English, or any language, depends first upon your mastery of the verbs as presented in such a book. Sure, no more information is conveyed about the structure of the various forms than could be conveyed with 50 verbs, but it is handly to have the extra verbs defined in a single reference.