Prepositional Verbs
Prepositional verbs are a group of multi-word verbs made from a verb plus another word or words.
Many people refer to all multi-word verbs as phrasal verbs.
Prepositional Verbs are made of:
verb + preposition
Because a preposition always has an object, all prepositional verbs have direct objects.
For example:
- I believe in God.
- He is looking after the dog.
- Did you talk about me?
- John is waiting for Mary.
Prepositional verbs cannot be separated. That means that we cannot put the direct object between the two parts.
For example:
we must say "look after the baby"
we cannot say "look the baby after"
Many people refer to all multi-word verbs as phrasal verbs.
Prepositional Verbs are made of:
verb + preposition
Because a preposition always has an object, all prepositional verbs have direct objects.
For example:
- I believe in God.
- He is looking after the dog.
- Did you talk about me?
- John is waiting for Mary.
Prepositional verbs cannot be separated. That means that we cannot put the direct object between the two parts.
For example:
we must say "look after the baby"
we cannot say "look the baby after"