Including... The GRAMMATICAL PATTERN of each verb & preposition combination. A SPECIAL SECTION focusing on the meaning of prepositions. A SPECIAL SECTION featuring combinations of prepositions with the verb MADE. The USAGE of each combination showing how it is used in everyday English. EXAMPLE sentences to see how the idiom is used in context. 19 QUIZZES to help you study and remember the verbs and prepositions. What is a verb & preposition combination? English prepositions are often used together with verbs as set phrases. For example The verb listen generally takes the preposition to, as in "I like to listen to jazz." Other examples include: apologize for, belong to, care for, devote to, elaborate on, fell like, graduate from, help with, invest in, know about, look at, matter to, object to, participate in, recover from, succeed in, think of, vouch for, and write about. This book includes 225 of these combinations. Why learn verb & preposition combination? Getting the preposition right is essential for making your ideas understood in English. There is a differences between hear about and hear from. Knowing these differences, and knowing which preposition to use with which verb will help you sound more natural in English. This can help you in both everyday life and in the workplace. Of course theses preparing for the TOEFL and TOEIC exams will certainly need to know these combinations.

Including… The GRAMMATICAL PATTERN of each verb & preposition combination. A SPECIAL SECTION focusing on the meaning of prepositions. A SPECIAL SECTION featuring combinations of prepositions with the verb MADE. The USAGE of each combination showing how it is used in everyday English. EXAMPLE sentences to see how the idiom is used in context. 18 QUIZZES to help you study and remember the verbs and prepositions. ALMOST 2 HOURS of my audio lessons explaining the meaning and examples of each combination! What is a verb & preposition combination? English prepositions are often used together with verbs as set phrases. For example The verb listengenerally takes the preposition to, as in “I like to listen to jazz.” Other examples include: apologize for , belong to, care for, devote to, elaborate on, fell like, graduate from, help with, invest in, know about, look at, matter to, object to, participate in, recover from, succeed in, think of, vouch for, and write about. This book includes 225 of these combinations. Why learn verb & preposition combination? Getting the preposition right is essential for making your ideas understood in English. There is a differences between hear about and hear from. Knowing these differences, and knowing which preposition to use with which verb will help you sound more natural in English. This can help you in both everyday life and in the workplace. Of course theses preparing for the TOEFL and TOEIC exams will certainly need to know these combinations.

Including… The GRAMMATICAL PATTERN of each verb & preposition combination. A SPECIAL SECTION focusing on the meaning of prepositions. A SPECIAL SECTION featuring combinations of prepositions with the verb MADE. The USAGE of each combination showing how it is used in everyday English. EXAMPLE sentences to see how the idiom is used in context. 18 QUIZZES to help you study and remember the verbs and prepositions. ALMOST 2 HOURS of my audio lessons explaining the meaning and examples of each combination! What is a verb & preposition combination? English prepositions are often used together with verbs as set phrases. For example The verb listengenerally takes the preposition to, as in “I like to listen to jazz.” Other examples include: apologize for , belong to, care for, devote to, elaborate on, fell like, graduate from, help with, invest in, know about, look at, matter to, object to, participate in, recover from, succeed in, think of, vouch for, and write about. This book includes 225 of these combinations. Why learn verb & preposition combination? Getting the preposition right is essential for making your ideas understood in English. There is a differences between hear about and hear from. Knowing these differences, and knowing which preposition to use with which verb will help you sound more natural in English. This can help you in both everyday life and in the workplace. Of course theses preparing for the TOEFL and TOEIC exams will certainly need to know these combinations.

Including... The GRAMMATICAL PATTERN of each verb & preposition combination. A SPECIAL SECTION focusing on the meaning of prepositions. A SPECIAL SECTION featuring combinations of prepositions with the verb MADE. The USAGE of each combination showing how it is used in everyday English. EXAMPLE sentences to see how the idiom is used in context. 19 QUIZZES to help you study and remember the verbs and prepositions. What is a verb & preposition combination? English prepositions are often used together with verbs as set phrases. For example The verb listen generally takes the preposition to, as in "I like to listen to jazz." Other examples include: apologize for, belong to, care for, devote to, elaborate on, fell like, graduate from, help with, invest in, know about, look at, matter to, object to, participate in, recover from, succeed in, think of, vouch for, and write about. This book includes 225 of these combinations. Why learn verb & preposition combination? Getting the preposition right is essential for making your ideas understood in English. There is a differences between hear about and hear from. Knowing these differences, and knowing which preposition to use with which verb will help you sound more natural in English. This can help you in both everyday life and in the workplace. Of course theses preparing for the TOEFL and TOEIC exams will certainly need to know these combinations.

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.

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