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Synopsis
Based on the popular language bibles, The Blue Pocket Book of French Verbs and The Red Pocket Book of Spanish Verbs are the most comprehensive, clearest, and easiest-to-use sources for beginning and intermediate learners. Now these books are even more convenient for school or home use thanks to their smaller trim size. But these pocket-sized guides are still mightier than all of the competition in this format.
These portable guides offer smooth sailing through the turbulent seas of a new grammar with:
- 333 fully conjugated verbs, listed alphabetically
- Current idioms and expressions for each verb
- Full facing page of usage examples for the top50 verbs
- One-stop, at-a-glance verb-tense profiles
- More than 2,200 verbs cross-referenced to models
- A handy guide to deciphering irregular verb forms
- English index to the model verbs
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Table of Contents
The Red Pocket Book of Spanish VerbsSpanish Tenses Profiles• Easy –to-view summaries of formation and uses of each tenseThe Basics of ConjunctionThe Simple TensesThe Present TenseThe Imperfect TenseThe Preterit TenseThe Future TenseThe Conditional TenseThe Present SubjunctiveThe Imperfect SubjunctiveThe Compound TensesThe Present Perfect TenseThe Past Perfect TenseThe Preterit Perfect TenseThe Future Perfect TenseThe Conditional Perfect TenseThe Present Perfect SubjunctiveThe Past Perfect (or Pluperfect) SubjunctiveThe Progressive TensesThe InfinitivePrincipal Parts of the WebCommands (The Imperative)Reflexive VerbsThe Passive Voice333 Fully Conjugated VerbsAlphabetically ordered with examples of common useTop 30 Verbs: Full page of examples adjoining select conjugationsEnglish –Spanish Verbs Index333 verb models cross-referenced by English meaningIrregular Verb Form IndexIndex showing the infinitive of difficult irregular SpanishSpanish Verb IndexMore then 2,300 Verbs cross –referenced to the full verb models