Thanks a lot MM! Your explanations were really helpful! Now, could you give some examples of the prepositional verbs used in context (i.e. in a sentence)? Thanks a lot!! Mara.

Your comments re gerunds are correct. You need to separate prepositional verbs from free verbs + infinitive. To a large extent, it is a matter of learning the prepositional verbs: look forward to be used to object to attend to

Hello Cj, Thank you for your answer! Longman distinguishes 3 types of object: Direct, Indirect and Prepositional (I believe that the classification is the same in Quirk, isn't it?). It looks to me that Longman also distinguishes

Welcome to English Forums! It would be better if someone familiar with the Longman book responded to your question. I am not familiar with that book. Nevertheless, I will try to answer your questions. 1. An object of a preposition

Hi, I'm a new member on the forum. My name's Michal and I'm from Poland. I've been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately. Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English , I've come across a couple of problems which are hard

Dear teachers, Would you please help me to solve this problem? Example 1 : I have been looking for you everywhere. "Parsing" = sentence analysis (correct use ?) Form + Function : I = Noun Phrase = subject have been looking = Verb Phrase =

It's a prepositional verb IMO.

I don't see it as a phrasal verb.

Now, where have I seen this question before? I think I've answered it by proxy already, so I'll leave it to another's opinion.

IYO, is "sailed through" a prepositional verb or a phrasal verb in the sentence below? She sailed through her exams.