Complete List of Verb and Preposition Combinations
by Tom McKlin


As grammar teachers know, we easily find ourselves wandering around in a swamp when trying to distinguish verbs+preposition combinations from verb+particle (phrasal verbs) combinations and verb+particle+preposition combinations. Here are some rules you can use to separate phrasal verbs from verb+preposition combinations:

Three rules for separating phrasal verbs from verb+preposition combinations.


And here are three lists of the various ways we combine verbs and prepositions in English:

Verb+preposition combinations

Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs+preposition combinations
 


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Pat Byrd
Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302
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