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The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed.
1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not
auxiliaries or modals)
2 action verbs; event
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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ganesh77
1 yr 252 days ago
Articles, Prepositions, Constructions, Clauses, Nouns, Adverbs, Auxiliaries, Modals, Gerunds, Prepositional Verbs, Direct Objects, Modal Verbs, Indirect Objects, Inflections, Dynamic Verbs
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. 1.-- I would guess that there are several ways to approach this; here's mine: I - Subject got - verb used - predicate adjective to - preposition your - possessive adjective being - gerund (object of preposition) here - noun complement 2. Is
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I got used to your being here.
1. How would this sentence be parsed?
2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb?
3. How does 'here', which is an adverb, modify 'being', which is a gerund (noun)?
4. What if
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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
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