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Alphabetical lists put begin next to bend and separate it from drink, sing and swim, which are the same verb wearing different consonants. This book sorts the two hundred into forty groups of five by the shape they share, so that learning one pattern gives you five verbs instead of one unconnected fact.
Five parts, running from most useful to least: the fifteen verbs you cannot hold a conversation without, the ones that never change, the large family where two of the three forms match, the eighty where all three differ, and the handful where English itself has not decided - learnt or learned, dived or dove, hanged or hung.
A complete alphabetical list of all two hundred at the back, with the three forms and the group where each one is explained, so the book works as a lookup once you have read it as a course.
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Alex Carter writes practical English books for people who use the language at work and in ordinary life rather than in a classroom. The books are built around complete examples - real sentences, real situations - on the principle that one worked example teaches more than a page of rules.
