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    Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E: With 125 Exercises + Free Flashcard App
    Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E: With 125 Exercises + Free Flashcard App
    Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E: With 125 Exercises + Free Flashcard App
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    Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E: With 125 Exercises + Free Flashcard App

    By Loretta S. Gray

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateMar 8, 2013
    ISBN9780071807364
    Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E: With 125 Exercises + Free Flashcard App

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      Practice Makes Perfect English Verbs 2/E - Loretta S. Gray

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      Contents

      Introduction

      PART I      The Present Tense

      Unit 1     Simple Present

      Unit 2     Be Verb Forms, Simple Present

      Unit 3     Present Progressive (Be Verb + -ing)

      Unit 4     Present Perfect

      Unit 5     Present Perfect Progressive

      PART II     The Past Tense

      Unit 6     Simple Past

      Unit 7     Be Verb Forms, Simple Past

      Unit 8     Past Progressive (Be Verb + -ing)

      Unit 9     Past Perfect

      Unit 10   Past Perfect Progressive

      PART III    The Future Tense

      Unit 11   Simple Future

      Unit 12   Be Going To

      Unit 13   Future Progressive (Will Be Verb + -ing)

      Unit 14   Future Perfect

      Unit 15   Future Perfect Progressive

      PART IV     Imperative, Passive, and Hypothetical Conditional

      Unit 16   Imperative

      Unit 17   Passive

      Unit 18   Hypothetical Conditional

      PART V      Phrasal Verbs and Modal Auxiliary Verbs

      Unit 19   Phrasal Verbs

      Unit 20   Modal Auxiliary Verbs

      PART VI     Gerund and Infinitive Complements

      Unit 21   Gerunds

      Unit 22   Infinitives

      Unit 23   Gerunds or Infinitives

      Review Exercises

      Appendix: Chart of Irregular Verbs

      Glossary

      Answer Key

      Introduction

      When you study English verbs, you must do more than search for their meanings in a dictionary. You must also learn how to conjugate them and use these conjugations appropriately. Most students begin their studies by memorizing verb forms. They learn both the verb endings for regular verbs and the more complicated forms of the irregular verbs. Practice Makes Perfect: English Verbs provides you with opportunities to practice conjugating more than three hundred verbs, both regular and irregular.

      However, this text is more than a list of verb forms and mechanical exercises. It also presents the reasons for choosing one verb form over another. For example, you may know the dictionary meaning of walk, but to use this verb to refer to the future, you must understand your options; that is, you must understand the role of tense and aspect. To indicate future, you could say I’ll walk to school today, I’m going to walk to school today, or I’m walking to school today, but not I walk to school today.

      When most people think of tense, they think of time. While it is true that tense is sometimes related to present, past, and future time, this is not always the case. In the sentence My plane leaves in twenty minutes, the simple present tense of the verb leave is used to refer to future time. As well as being marked for tense, verbs are marked for aspect. Aspect provides information about whether an action, a state, or an event has been completed and how a verb is related to other verbs in a time sequence. I study English and I am studying English are both in the present tense, but they differ in aspect. The verb in the first sentence refers to a habitual action; the verb in the second sentence refers to an action that is not yet completed. To indicate both tense and aspect, study is said to be in the simple present and am studying is said to be in the present progressive. In the sentence I had been studying for the test when the phone rang, there are two main verbs: study and ring. They are both in the past tense; however, they differ in aspect. Had been studying is the past perfect progressive, whereas rang is just the simple past. The difference in aspect indicates that the action of studying was ongoing and prior to the action of ringing. Tense and aspect intersect in the following way.

      The form and meaning of each of these tense-aspect combinations will be described in the units of this book. Although you will study all the tenses mentioned in traditional textbooks, you will also study the concept of aspect so that you will have a deeper understanding of the grammatical meaning conveyed by the form of a verb. Thus, as you work through the material in Practice Makes Perfect: English Verbs, you will learn not only how to conjugate verbs but also why to use specific verb forms.

      Any study of verbs would be incomplete without the inclusion of special types of verbs and complementation patterns. After you become familiar with verb conjugations, you will study phrasal verbs, modal verbs, and verb complementation (gerunds and infinitives).

      This book focuses on the verbs most frequently used in English. It is appropriate for classroom use or individual study. If you are in a class, your teacher may choose to assign exercises to supplement your other coursework. If you are studying alone, you can use the Answer Key at the back of the book to check your work and decide whether you should review a chapter or go on to the next.

      There are six principal parts in this book:

      PART I—THE PRESENT TENSE The five units in Part I will help you learn the verb forms that constitute four different tense-aspect combinations: simple present, present progressive, present perfect, and present perfect progressive. You will practice using these forms in positive statements, negative statements, and questions. You will also learn how to form contractions with pronouns or the word not. A special section focuses on the verb be.

      PART II—THE PAST TENSE The five units in Part II will help you learn four more tense-aspect combinations: simple past, past progressive, past perfect, and past perfect progressive. As in Part I, you will practice using these tense-aspect combinations and their contracted forms in positive statements, negative statements, and questions. In this part also, there is a special section focusing on the verb be.

      PART III—THE FUTURE TENSE Part III differs from the others in that the modal will is introduced rather than verb endings. This part consists of five units: simple future, future progressive, future perfect, future perfect progressive, and a unit on the use of be going to. You will practice using the future tense-aspect combinations and their contracted forms in positive statements, negative statements, and questions.

      PART IV—IMPERATIVE, PASSIVE, AND HYPOTHETICAL CONDITIONAL The three units in Part IV will help you learn to use verbs in special constructions not discussed earlier: imperative (Be careful!), passive (The project was finished on time.), and hypothetical conditional (If I were you, I would accept the offer.).

      PART V—PHRASAL VERBS AND MODAL AUXILIARY VERBS The English language is full of phrasal verbs, which are verb-particle combinations, such as run into in run into an old friend. In the first unit of Part V, you will practice using some common phrasal verbs. The second unit of Part V focuses on modal auxiliary verbs. Although you will be introduced to modal verbs in Parts III and IV, you will learn more about the subtle shades of meaning that tense and aspect add to these verbs.

      PART VI—GERUND AND INFINITIVE COMPLEMENTS Some verbs take gerunds, some take infinitive complements, and some take both. Part VI will help you learn to choose appropriate verb complements.

      Following these six

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