Prepositional Verbs, Verbs + Preposition - Learn English with Julia

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!
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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.
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[@81wwwolf]

Thanks very much for this video, Julia. It sent me off on a search about the differences in meaning between verbs with of vs. about. My god! Half a day later, I’m still not fully capable of explaining the difference between some of them. It’s amazing how native speakers learn such subtleties without being able to talk ‘about’ the differences. In other words, they know the language without necessarily knowing ‘about’ it. Now, if you know ‘of’ a good resource that clearly articulates the differences, I’d appreciate it if you recommended it to me. Thanks.

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Thank you for the explanation!

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good explanation, very useful, thanks a lot ms Julia...but maybe u need to make ur explanation longer, I mean in a little bit more detail (y) 😊

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Put examples...

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Maybe if you said, “please”, you’d get your wish....