Easy Learning English Verbs
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Easy Learning English Verbs

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Easy Learning English Verbs

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About this book

Collins Easy Learning English Verbs is an accessible guide to English verbs. With simple explanations of English verbs and the way they work, this book will prove indispensable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of English verbs.

Using clear explanations and examples, all the essential grammar of verbs, such as tense and aspect, is covered. This book also provides a detailed look at verbs which are especially important or difficult to learn, such as phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, and primary and modal auxiliary verbs.
Each point is described in a user-friendly format, with corpus examples that show how English is really used today.

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account [ə’kaʊnt]

accounts 3rd person present
accounting present participle
accounted past tense & past participle
PHRASAL VERB

account for something

to explain something or give the reason for it
How do you account for these differences?

add [æd]

adds 3rd person present
adding present participle
added past tense & past participle
TRANSITIVE
1 to put one thing with another thing
Add the cheese to the sauce.
2 to say something more
‘He’s very
angry,’ Mr Smith added.
PHRASAL VERB

add something up

to find the total of various numbers or amounts
Add up the number of hours you spent on the task.

add up to something

to form a total
Altogether, the three bills add up to £2,456.

arise
[ә′raɪz]

arises 3rd person present
arising present participle
arose past tense
arisen past participle
INTRANSITIVE to begin to exist
When
the opportunity finally arose, thousands of
workers left.
I phoned him at home because
a problem had arisen at work.

awake
[ә′weɪk]

awakes 3rd person present
awaking present participle
awoke past tense
awoken past participle
TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE to stop
sleeping or to make someone stop sleeping (literary)
I was awoken by the sound of many voices.
At midnight he awoke and listened to the radio for a few minutes.

back [bæk]

backs 3rd person present
backing present participle
backed past tense & past participle
1 TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE to move
backwards or to move a vehicle
backwards
He backed his car out of the driveway.
The car backed out of the garage.
2 TRANSITIVE to support someone
We told them what we wanted to do, and they agreed to back us.
PHRASAL VERB

back away

to mo...

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Guide to entries
  4. Pronunciation guide
  5. The verb phrase
  6. Types of verb
  7. Tense
  8. Voice
  9. Infinitives and the-ing form
  10. Word order
  11. Clauses
  12. A–Z of important verbs Key Verbs
  13. Irregular verbs
  14. Index