"Most verb books give you verbs in a vacuum, focusing mainly on conjugating tenses. 'Essential Spanish verb skills', in contrast, shows you how to apply correct verb usage to sentence building. Using dozens of real-world examples and exercises, author Rogelio Alonso Vallecillos goes beyond conjugation to demonstrate how verbs function in both formal and everyday spoken and written Spanish. And he shows you how to integrate them into meaningful sentences of your own." -- back cover.