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The most common Spanish verbs, alphabetically arranged, one verb per page, conjugated in all tenses
Formation of the present and past participles
Common idioms and examples sentences demonstrating verb usage
More than 2,200 additional verbs conjugated like model verbs among the 501
Often-used Spanish phrases, words, and expressions
List of Essential 55 Verbs with usage examples and expressions related to the verbs
A summary of sequence of verb tenses...and much more

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About the Author
Dr. Christopher Kendris has worked as interpreter and translator of French for the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Paris. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he held a New York State Scholarship, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he held a Teaching Assistantship and Tutorial Fellowship during four years. He also earned two diplomas with Mention tres Honorable at the Universite de Paris (en Sorbonne), Faculte des Lettres, Ecole Superieure de Preparation et de Perfectionnement des Professeurs de Francais a I'Etranger, and at the Institute de Phonetique, Paris. In 1986 he was one of 95 teachers in the United States awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Teacher of Foreign Languages in American High Schools. He has taught French at the College of the University of Chicago as visiting summer lecturer, at Colby College, Duke University, Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey, and the State University of New York at Albany. He was Chairman of the Department of foreign Languages and Supervisor of 16 foreign language teachers on the secondary level at Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale, New York, where he was also a teacher of all levels of French and Spanish, and prepared students for the New York State French and Spanish Regents, SAT exams, and AP tests. Dr. Kendris is the author of 22 school and college books, workbooks, and other language guides of French and Spanish. He is listed in Contemporary Authors and the Directory of American Scholars.

Dr. Theodore Kendris earned his B. A. Degree in Modern Languages at Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he received the Thomas j. Judson Memorial Award for modern language study. He went on to earn his M.A. degree in French Language and Literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he held a Teaching Assistantship. He earned his Ph.D. degree in French Literature at Universite Laval in Quebec City, where he studied the Middle Ages and Renaissance. While at Universite Laval he taught French writing skills as a charge de cours in the French as a Second Language program and, in 1997, he was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Foundation de l'Universite' Laval. He has also taught in the Department of English and Foreign Language at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, as well as the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University.

Table of Contents

• About the Authors
• Preface to the Seventh Edition
• Introduction
• Formation of the Present and Past Participles in Spanish
• Formation of the present participle in Spanish
• Common irregular present participles
• Uses of the present participles
• The progressive forms of tenses
• Formation of the past participle in Spanish
• Common irregular past participles
• Uses of the past participle
• Passive voice and active voice
• The Spanish infinitive and its principal uses
• Principal parts of some important Spanish verbs
• Sample English verb conjugation
• A summary of meanings and uses Spanish verb tenses and moods
• The Seven Simple Tenses
• The Seven Compound Tenses
• Imperativo
• The future subjunctive and the future subjunctive
• Summary of verb tenses and moods in Spanish
• Definitions of basic grammatical terms with examples
• Verb drills and tests with answers explained
• Answers to verb tests with explanations
• An easy way to form the seven compound tenses in Spanish
• Subject pronouns