Prepositions 3 (verb + preposition) | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

Search the corpus:

[Prepositions 3 (verb + preposition) #3]
(If two or more prepositions seem to be acceptable, use the one that is most commonly used in the corpus.)

AT, ON, or TO
(1) You have to apologize them.
(2) I listened it the radio.
(3) Do you ever listen the radio?

TO or FOR
(4) I was invited a party.
(5) The restaurant caters American tourists only.
(6) You have to apply the Board it.

FROM or OF
(7) I wouldn't deprive them that.
(8) The mystique of cheese making consists entirely doing all the operations at exactly the right degree acidity.
(9) We are suffering a metaphysical disease.

ABOUT, OF, or ON
(10) Concentrate the details, please.
(11) I was terribly upset to hear the disaster this morning.
(12) Have you ever heard a writer called Thomas Hardy.

ON or IN
(13) The have specialised car components.
(14) Do you believe ghosts?
(15) No one insisted this more forcefully than me.


Last updated 4 October 2023, SOE
© 2004, 2005, 2006-2022 ILOS, University of Oslo