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Verb Patterns:Verb Chunks and Phrasal Verbs

2015/03/03

Happy New Year! And welcome back to our Let’s Right English series. I hope you have been practicing over the vacation. So far, we have been focusing on verb tenses: how to change verb tenses to give the verbs the correct meaning of time.

Now, we are going to focus on complements, or chunks, or patterns.

In what follows, it’s important to always focus on what you see in front of you and try to find patterns in what you can see. All verb complements can be divided into two groups: verbs with prepositions, which are called phrasal verbs, and verbs without prepositions, which we can simply call verb chunks. (Chunk = pattern)

Task 1: Look carefully at these following chunks. Sort them into the table below.

arrange n.p.

ask s/o to V

begin to V

believe that v.p.

continue to V

continue Ving

decide that v.p

discuss s/th with s/o

do away with n.p.

do s/th for s/o

enjoy Ving

feel that v.p.

find n.p.

get s/th from s/o

go into s/th

go to n.p.

help s/o to V

inform s/o about s/th

involve Ving

keep after s/o

keep on at s/o

look at s/th

look into n.p.

offer s/o s/th

prepare to V

recommend that v.p.

remember n.p.

require s/o to V

try Ving

understand n.p.

use s/th to V

want to V

send s/o s/th

tell s/o s/th

*Verbs without* prepositions (verb chunks)**	*Verbs with* prepositions (phrasal verbs)**

It’s very important to learn the correct pattern of the verb. This will help to make your writing more accurate and clear.

Verb complements	→	non-prepositional verb chunks
Verb complements	→	prepositional phrasal verbs

Over the next few weeks, we are not going to look at phrasal verbs, as they are used more in speaking than in writing.

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*2015/03/06更新

Here are the answers from last week.

*Verbs without* prepositions (verb chunks)**		*Verbs with* prepositions (phrasal verbs)**
arrange n.p. ask s/o to V begin to V believe that v.p. continue to V continue Ving decide that v.p. enjoy Ving feel that v.p. find n.p. help s/o to V involve Ving	offer s/o s/th prepare to V recommend that v.p. remember n.p. require s/o to V send s/o s/th tell s/o s/th try Ving understand n.p. use s/th to V want to V	discuss s/th with s/o do away with n.p. do s/th for s/o get s/th from s/o go into s/th go to n.p. inform s/o about s/th keep after s/o keep on at n.p. look at s/th look into n.p.

*This should be quite easy as long as you’re clear about what a preposition is!

*Remember that there are two kinds of ‘to’. One is a preposition (followed by Ving or a noun phrase); the other kind of ‘to’ is not a preposition (followed by V).

*‘That’ and ‘how’ are not prepositions.

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