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

Like many intra-language textbooks this one is quite thoro, but I for one cannot work with it. The tenses of the conjugated verbs are listed in very neat layout, very conveniently paginated, but labeled with the execrable standard grammar lingo. Quick, what's "past perfect" ? What's the "preterite" ? Oh, so you know what preterite is? Well, who doesn't, but then what's the "past perfect subjunctive" ? Cant define it, but I know it when I see it ...

When some of these "tenses" are renamed in simple English, such as: continuous present, or continuous past, instead of "progressive present/past" there is a vast improvement; the name itself allows you to picture or voice the tense in use.

But such elegant simplicity is not found here. I would not mind sacrificing the neat layout of this book for a more splayed one which translates into English an example of every single tense of every single verb listed, rather than forcing me to undertake memorizing what all the grammar tenses in order to glean their Spanish conjugations.

One of the best guides I have studied from to learn a foreign language. It gives examples of how to use 55 essential verbs and it covers all of the tenses. The price is also very good, this book is really worth your money and your time.

Nice buying . I read/used this book for study and I'm not disappointed. I recommend.

Very disappointing. Having purchased the French and German verb books in this series, I assumed that this book would be up to the same high standard as the other two. Not so. I am not sure if this book has been written by computer, or by someone who has English as a second language. I think any reader using this book to try to learn English will have a difficult time. Only buy this book if nothing else is available. Then again you might be better off not buying this book at all.

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.