Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book, The
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Written primarily for ESL and EFL students preparing to take language exams in English, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs and the ways in which they are used in everyday American English. Phrasal verbs are word groups that include a verb combined with a preposition or an adverb. They are used not only as verbs but as nouns, such as comedown, breakup, or showoff. They might also be used as adjectives, such as spaced-out,… Product details and pricing info |
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8 Customer Reviews Posted
- Incredible Resource
- I've just come from a tutoring session with an adult Russian student; she was so pleased with this book that I let her keep my copy and returned home to order another for myself, its modest price being yet another inducement for purchase. The book is lucid, well-organized, and thorough. While I explain by paraphrase, analogy, and mime, here the phrases are defined precisely, with variations made explicit. As a native speaker, I found myself not only informed but also delighted by some of the book's definitions. It seems to cover the most common phrasal verbs non-native speakers encounter and understand in context but are otherwise flummoxed by. For a student who speaks competently but wants to "sound more American," this book is an ideal resource.
- 2007-12-28, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- All the practice you can put up with
- A throrough examination of this most English of constructions. Recommended for the learner of English as a second language who would like to make his English sound more like that of a native speaker by substituting such Latinate words as 'tolerate' with the more colloquial 'put up with.' Abundant examples and exercises.
- 2007-08-12, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Phrasal verbs in plain American English
- Focus on about 450 well choosen phrasal verbs.
Escellent choice of typical sentences in which the phrasal verbs are used
Excellent recap exercises at the end of each chapter that force you to remind Phrasal verbs defined in previous chapters.
Some explanation for phrasal verb meaning not absolutely clear (just about 10 on 450)
Some mistakes in the solution part.
Very good choice for foreign learners. - 2007-03-23, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excelent ESL material
- This is a book we use a lot with our students, it's pretty good, not too expensive and it is user friendly.
- 2006-07-10, 2 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A comprehensive, easy-to-use workbook of phrasal verbs
- An excellent workbook for learning phrasal verbs in English. Its format is easy to understand, and a number of exercises are provided in each unit to help students master the phrasal verbs they have learned in the unit. However, I have found quite a few mistakes/misprints in the answer section. Some are minor: verbs and particles are separated where they should be put together one after the other; others a bit more serious: a phrasal verb that is appropriate in meaning but not covered in the given unit is offered as an answer to the quiz, or simply wrong ones are provided. Otherwise, I would have given 5 stars. I hope that there aren't as many mistakes/misprints in the text itself, and that the publisher will correct them for the next edition.
- 2005-12-31, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
