The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book

By Carl W. Hart

Book Overview

The new Barron's ESL Proficiency Series is designed to help intermediate language students jumpstart their learning and achieve greater proficiency This self-study guide can be used independently or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764141201
• ISBN13: 9780764141201
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous!

This book is fabulous! I host exchange students each year and they have all told me that this is the best gift I could have gotten them hands down. It clues them in to all the slang and phrases we use without thinking. Great find!!

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.

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.

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.

The best, so far!

If you are serious about learning the English language as a non-native learner, you'll enjoy this book. It covers the subject thoroughly, with a more practical approach than others. I think this book is the best because you learn phrasal verbs in contest, as they are used everyday. An academic approach can be misleading, and useless, for the non-native learner. The approach is very user-friendly, and intuitive. Very good for intermediate and advanced learners.