Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar, 2E (Verbs and Essentials of Grammar Series),   ISBN:9780071498050

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there are some efforts to make the book interesting but despite this, the content is of moderate usefulness.

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The service was great. I ordered my book 5 days before my class started and the package arrived promptly and the book was in excellent condition, looked brand new. The price was absolutely the best. I will definitely order future books from this company.

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The Arabic verb is both simpler and harder than that of languages more familiar to English speaking learners. Simpler, because basically you have two tenses: Perfect and Imperfect. (The future, negative future and past habitual tenses, as well as the jussive and subjunctive moods are all formed by small changes or additions to the imperfect). Harder, because of the bewildering variety of sizes and shapes in which the verb can appear. The simplest form, which is usually referred to as Form I, consists of words built upon a 'root', almost always of three consonants (once in a while four), with eight of the remaining nine forms, which usually change some nuance of the Form I's meaning, being derived by an internal change to the original verb or by attaching a prefix to it.

This little book is a great resource for keeping track of all this, and it is a particularly helpful reference when it is necessary to deal with the often confusing doubled or hollow verbs. You can't beat the price, either.

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This book is simple, concise and insightful. It presents the verbal forms and tenses, the adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and other important grammatical categories and rules. The examples that are introduced reflect real-life situations.
On the whole, the work is a very good introduction to the basics of Arabic.

Joyce Akesson author of The Complexity Of The Irregular Verbal And Nominal Forms & The Phonological Changes In Arabic and Arabic Morphology and Phonology: Based on the Marah Al-Arwah by Ahmad B. Ali B. Masud (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

Customer Rating: 

This book is simple, concise and insightful. It presents the verbal forms and tenses, the adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and other important grammatical categories and rules. The examples that are introduced reflect real-life situations.
On the whole, the work is a very good introduction to the basics of Arabic.

Joyce Akesson author of The Complexity of the Irregular Verbal and Nominal Forms & the Phonological Changes in Arabic