Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs, 2nd Edition

by Loretta S. Gray

Overview

Master English verb forms

If you're looking for help memorizing English verb conjugations, any English verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent, you’ll need to learn how these building blocks are used in everyday, natural language. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: English
Verbs comes in.

The ideal reference and workbook for advanced beginning to intermediate ESL learners, Practice Makes
Perfect: English Verbs shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples,
increasing your confidence in choosing the right word.
Thanks to the proven Practice Makes Perfect format,
you will learn to master English verbs in no time at all.

With Practice Makes Perfect: English Verbs, you will:

• Understand when and why to use different verb tenses
• Learn how verbs work with everyday examples from a wide range of topics
• Build your verb skills with more than 125 engaging exercises
• New! Test your overall comprehension with a review section

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071807357
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Series:	Practice Makes Perfect (McGraw-Hill)
Edition description:	Net
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Loretta Gray, a professor of English at Central Washington University, has had experience in teaching ESOL in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. She has also taught Spanish at Clemson University and applied linguistics at the School for International Training. Dr. Gray has been teaching applied linguistics courses at Central Washington University since 1992. She is also the author of Practice Makes Perfect: Idiomatic English.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. The Present Tense
Part II. The Past Tense
Part III. The Future Tense
Part IV. Imperative, Passive and Hypothetical Conditional
Part V. Phrasal Verbs and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Part VI. Gerund and Infinitive Complements
Part VII. Review Section
Appendix: Chart of Irregular Verbs
Glossary
Answer Key