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PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep.

)
Verb + IN

Abound Aid
Arrive Believe

Collaborate Compete

Confide Delight

Differ Dress

End Enroll

Gain Grow

IN
Implicate Indulge

Insert Interfere

Intervene Invest

Lie Participate

Persist Reckon

Result Settle

Specialise Succeed

Trade
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + ON

Avenge Agree (on sth)


Blame (sth on sb)
Centre Comment

Compliment Concentrate

Confer Depend

Dwell Elaborate

Embark Experiment

Feed (Sb/Sth on) Gain

Impose Inflict

ON
Insist Intrude

Lean Live

Negotiate Operate

Plan Point
Pride (oneself on) Reckon
Report Rely
Spend Spy
Wait
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + TO

Act Adopt
Add Adhere
Adjust Admit
Aggree (to a request) Allocate
Allude Amount
Apologize (to sb) Appeal
Appeal (to sb) Apply
Ascribe (X to Y) Assign
Attach Attend
Attribute (X to Y)

TO
Belong Bet
Cater Challenge
Change Commit
Comminucate Compare
Complain (to sb) Comdemn
Confess Confide (sth to sb)
Dedicate Devote
Explain
Help (oneself to sth) Hope
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + TO

Introduce Issue
Join
Keep (sth to oneself) Leave
Lend Listen
Object Offer
Prefer (X to Y) Present (to sb)
Protest React
Reduce Refer

TO
Reply Report (to sb)
Resort Respond
Restrict (sth to) Sacrifice
Signal Speak
Starve Submit
Subscribe Suggest
Supply (sth to sb) Surrender
Talk Turn
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + OF

Accuse (sb of) Acquit (sb of)


Approve Assure
Beware Boast
Complain Deprive (X of Y)
Despair Die
Dispose (of sth) Dream
Hear Inform (sb of)

OF
Know (of) Remind (sb of)
Repent Relieve (sb of sth)
Rob (sb of) Smell (of)
Speak Suspect (sb of)
Taste Think
Tire Warn (sb of)
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + AT

Aim Arrive
Estimate (sth at) Gaze
Glance Guess
Hint (at sth) Laugh (at person)
Look Marvel

AT
Peep Peer
Point Shoot
Stare Swear (at person)
Wonder Work
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + FOR

Account (for sth) Act (for sb)


Aim Allocate
Allow Apologize (for sth)
Apply (for sth) Arrest
Ask (for sth) Bargain (for sth)
Beg (for sth) Blame (sb for sth)
Care Cater
Change Charge

FOR
Compensate Compete (for a prize)
Comdemn Exchange (X for Y)
Excuse (sb for sth) Head
Listen Long
Mistake Opt
Pay Plan
Prepare Provide (sth for sb)
Punish Register
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + FOR

Reserve Reward (for sth)


Sacrifice Search
Send Sigh
Struggle Substitute (X for Y)

FOR
Suffer Supply (sth for sb)
Thank Treat
Vote Wait
Watch Wish
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + WITH

Abound Acquaint (sb with)


Agree (with sb) Aid
Alternate Argue (with sb)
Bargain Begin (with sth)
Charge (sb with sth) Collaborate (with sb)
Combine Communicate
Compare Compete
Comply Confer (with sb)
Conflict End (sth with)

WITH
Equip (sb/sth with) Experiment
Fight Fit (sb/sth with)
Help Identify (X with Y)
Impress (sb with) Infect
Inject Interact
Interfere Issue (sb with sth)
Leave Lie
Limit Merge
Negotiate (with sb) Part
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + WITH

Present (with sth) Provide (sb with sth)


Quarrel Register
Serve Share
Speak Struggle (with sb/sth)
Supply (sb with sth) Swarm

WITH
Sympathise Trouble
Talk Threaten
Trade Treat
Trust (sb with)
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + FROM
Abstain Ban (sb from)
Benefit Borrow
Date Deduce
Derive Deter (sb from)
Deviate Die
Differentiate (X from Y) Diverge
Discriminate (X from Y) Dram (money from)
Distinguish (X from Y) Eliminate
Emerge Escape

FROM
Exclude Excuse (sb from doing sth)
Hinder Infer
Prevent Profit
Prohibit Protect
Recover Refrain
Release Request
Rescue Resign
Remove Result
Retire Save
Seperate Steal
Suffer Translate
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. )
Verb + ABOUT

Agree (about sth) Argue (about sth)


Ask Boast
Care Complain (about sth)
Dream Hear
Inquire Joke

ABOUT
Laugh Quarrel (about sth)
Speak Swear (about event)
Trouble Talk
Tell (sb about sth) Think
Warn
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. ) – THE OTHERS
Verb + AGAINST
Bet Compete
Defend Discriminate
Fight Guard
Insure Lean
Opt Protect
React Rebel
Struggle Warn

Verb + OUT OF
Cheat (sb out of) Opt
Swindle

Verb + INTO
Change Enter
Fool (sb into) Force (sb into)
Inject Inquire
Lead (sb into) Merge
Transform Translate
Turn (sb/sth into)

Verb + DOWN
Settle (down)
PREPOSITIONS ( Verb + Prep. ) – THE OTHERS
Verb + BY
Live (by sth) Mean (sth by)
Reduce (sth by) Win (sth by)

Verb + OVER
Puzzle (over) Quarrel
Triumph
Verb + UPON
Dwell Intrude

Verb + BETWEEN
Choose
Differentiate (between X and Y)
Discriminate (between X and Y)
Distinguish (between X and Y)

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