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| 101 French Verbs: The Art of Conjugation (101... Language Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rory Ryder
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Category: Book
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0071499059
Dewey Decimal Number: 448.2421
EAN: 9780071499057
ASIN: 0071499059
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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A compact guide to the most useful verbs in their common forms October 2, 2008
This is a handy-sized list of 101 of the most-used verbs in French showing the main tenses (present, imperfect, perfect, future, conditional, subjunctive, imperative and present participle). The introduction describes the appropriate use of each tense. Each verb has a page dedicated to it showing the conjugations with the personal pronouns (je, tu, il etc); it also has a translation of the infinitive plus two sample usages (chosen at random from different person/tense combinations) as well as a cartoon illustration demonstrating the verb in a way that may help you to remember what it means. In addition to the main 101 verbs there is an index at the back of a further 150 verbs referencing which verb conjugation pattern it follows.
This is the kind of information usually only found in large dictionaries so its very useful to have something more portable and presented in a more palatable form than a typical textbook.
The main flaw in the book is the sequence of the 101 verbs - each of the illustrations is part of a storyline and the verbs are therefore presented in the order of the story. This makes using the book as a reference a more difficult process than it should be - if you can't remember the page that the verb is on you need to look in the index at the back and find its page number before being able to find the verb details themselves. A far better approach would be to have the main verbs in alphabetical order; you could therefore usually find the information you're looking for in one step rather than two. The illustrations would still add value as aide-memoires.
A minor quibble with the book is sometimes the English translation and the imperative (which are shown at the top of the page) are sometimes almost lost in the book binding; they've been printed too close to the edge of the page. This does not stop them being read; it just makes it slightly awkward.
The book is good value for the information it contains and makes attempting to learn verb conjugations a more agreeable exercise.
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