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In this lesson let's learn a comprehensive list of Prepositional Verbs with the prepositions: about, against, at, for, from, in, of, on, to, with... Prepositional Verbs are slightly different to Phrasal Verbs: find out why in this video tutorial! English Grammar class for beginners to proficient users of English. Learn English with Julia! Subscribe to my channel today! Don’t forget to check out my website: for more free English lessons (with quizzes, downloadable PDFs, and more) and connect through social media: LearnEnglishwithJulia Transcript of video: Hello and welcome to this video entitled Prepositional verbs Prepositional verbs are also known as verbs preposition They are very different to phrasal verbs. Why are they different? Well a prepositional verb has a grammatical preposition. This means that the preposition is there to introduce the direct object and is not there to alter the meaning of the main verb. In addition, prepositional verbs are inseparable. You can not say: What do you excel? You need the preposition to understand the sentence. What do you excel at? or What did you apologise for? and so on. So they are inseparable Finally, it is essential to learn the combinations The combinations stem from common usage. There aren't any clear rules that govern the use of prepositional verbs. In some cases, a verb can work with several prepositions, one, two or three different prepositions and have the same meaning. For example, You can talk/speak about something or, You can talk/speak of something The meaning is the similar. the meaning is really identical in fact and others like FIGHT can be followed by different prepositions and give a completely different meaning to the sentence. For example, They fight against abuse. We are therefore in a negative context They fight against something and They fight for freedom. This is a positive context Then we have this verb here: “arrive“ which is also quite peculiar “arrive at“ or “arrive in“ Never “arrives TO“* I travel to... I walk to... However, ARRIVE can not be followed by TO when we're talking about location or changing location you say: to arrive at the airport. to arrive in London If you hesitate between AT or IN, I recommend you watch the video on prepositions Otherwise, I highlighted some tricky words here mainly because of its spelling this is commonly misspelled word. to separate it's not an -E, it's an -A and otherwise... trust I've underlined that also Because we can say: “You trust someone ∅“ But “trust someone with“ When you introduce an object you must use a preposition and to object Here I've circled “OBJECT“ because it is said “to Object“ (accented on the last syllable) and not “To OBject“* (accented on the first syllable) “OBject“ (accented on the first syllable) is a name and “To ObJECT“ (accented on the last syllable) is a verb. If you do not understand why you are invited to watch the video on stress patterns it is quite revealing These are also common mistakes “TO DEPEND“ works only “ON“ “It depends ON the weather“ And “LISTEN“ “What are you listening TO?“ “I Listened TO a radio program“ or “show TV“ Not “LISTEN SOMETHING“ * Do not forget that they are inseparable and that they need prepositions. Otherwise, I think it's about just learning everything off by heart and getting plenty of practice. Thank you for watching! And good luck with the interactive exercises. Help us caption & translate this video!
