Practice Makes Perfect: English VerbsIn Practice Makes Perfect: English Verbs, students have the opportunity to study verbs in the three areas of form, meaning, and use. The text contains comprehensive overviews and exercises, both receptive and productive, on verb tense and aspect. Students conjugate verbs, but they also study the meanings these verb forms carry and the contexts in which they commonly appear. The verbs chosen for exercises come from a list of frequently used verbs. The first chapters present relatively straightforward verb phrases; the final chapters introduce more complicated forms, including phrasal verbs, modal verbs, and verbal complements (gerunds and infinitives). English Verbs also contains chapters on sentence constructions in which verbs play a central part: imperatives, conditionals, and passives. By working through each of the chapters in this text, students will achieve a comprehensive understanding of the English verb--a major step in acquiring a new language. |
Contents
The Past Tense | 45 |
The Future Tense | 81 |
Phrasal Verbs and Modal Auxiliary Verbs | 127 |
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active voice Activity in progress apostrophe indicates base form begin the question Complete action Action Complete each sentence Complete the following contractions in conversation conversation and informal Custom Fact Future EXAMPLE exercise Statement finish following questions based Forming Negatives Forming Wh-Questions Forming Yes/No Questions gerunds going hear these contractions infinitive informal writing irregular verb is/are main verb modal auxiliary verb modal verbs moved One-syllable word passive voice past perfect progressive past progressive perfect aspect perfect/passive form Person Second Person Person Third Person phrasal verbs place the subject Plural First Person pop music present perfect progressive present progressive progress Future question is similar question word Questions To form Rewrite the following Rewrite the sentences Second Person Third semi-modal sentences in exercise simple present statements as yes/no statements provided Temporary situation Activity tense-aspect combinations Unit verb forms verb in parentheses verb provided was/were Wh-Questions In wh-questions word ends