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Anyone know of a good site or reference book for English language learners struggling with which preposition to use after a specific meaning of a verb (two- and three-word verbs)?
Hankuri,
This is so grammatical! Takes me back to school days of diagramming sentences,(which they do not teach anymore)yet I still think of sentences in this way. Anyone else remember the vertical and slanted lines of compound/complex sentences? Prepositions should never latch onto verbs - "Take on"should be "Take on the job" to form the prepositional phrase. But this is Proper English, hardly ever heard anymore. So I suggest listening very carefully. In any case I like your query......although, the first examples I thought of ( there's one for you!) were off-color obscenities shouted by angry drivers!
in any case, good luck to you, your efforts will prove fruitful I am sure!
Gats
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