The following is a list of verbs and prepositions which commonly appear together.
Verb and Preposition Collocations
Verb and Preposition Collocations
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Verb and Preposition Collocations
A
- accuse (someone) of ([doing] something)
- add (something) to (something else)
- admire (someone) for ([doing] something)
- agree on (topic)
- agree with (someone)
- apologize to (someone) for ([doing] something)
- apply to (a place) for (something)
- approve of (something)
- argue with (someone) about (topic)
- arrive at (a building, room, site, event)
- arrive in (a city, country)
- ask (someone) about (someone/topic)
- ask (someone) for (something)
B
- believe in (something)
- belong to (someone)
- blame (someone) for ([doing] something)
- borrow (something) from (someone)
C
- care about (someone/something/topic)
- comment on (topic)
- compare (something) to/with (something else)
- complain to (someone) about (something)
- concentrate on ([doing] something)
- congratulate (someone) for/on ([doing] something)
- consist of (some things)
- consent to ([doing] something)
- contribute to (something)
- count on (someone) to (do something)
- cover (something) with (something else)
D
- decide on (topic)
- depend on (someone) for (something)
- discuss (something) with (someone)
- distinguish (something) from (something else)
- dream about/of (someone/something)
- believe in (something)
- belong to (someone)
- blame (someone) for ([doing] something)
- borrow (something) from (someone)
E
- escape from (somewhere)
- explain (topic) to (someone)
- excuse (someone) for ([doing] something)
G
- get rid of (something)
- graduate from (a place)
F
- forgive (someone for ([doing] something)
H
- happen to (someone)
- help (someone) with (something)
- hide (something) from (someone)
I
- insist (up)on (something)
- introduce (someone) to (someone else)
- invite (someone) to (an event)
K
- keep (something) for (someone)
M
- matter to (someone)
O
- object to (something)
P
- participate in (something)
- pay (price) for (something)
- plan on ([doing] something)
- pray for (someone/something)
- prefer (something) to (something else)
- prevent (someone) from ([doing] something)
- prohibit (someone) from ([doing] something)
- protect (someone) from (something)
- provide (someone) with (something)
R
- recover from (something)
- rely (up)on (someone/something)
- remind (someone) of (something)
- rescue (someone) from (something)
- respond to (someone/something)
S
- save (someone) from (something)
- search for (something)
- separate (something) from (something else)
- scold (someone) for ([doing] something)
- smile at (someone) for ([doing] something)
- speak to/with (someone) about (topic)
- stare at (something/someone)
- stop (someone) from ([doing] something)
- subscribe to (something)
- substitute (something) for (something else/someone)
- subtract (something) from (something else)
- succeed in ([doing] something)
- suffer from (something)
T
- take advantage of (someone/something/ situation)
- take care of (something/someone)
- talk to/with (someone) about (topic)
- thank (someone) for ([doing] something)
- travel to (somewhere)
V
- vote for (someone)
- vouch for (someone)
W
- wait for (someone/something)
- wish for (something)
- work for (company/something/someone)
See also :
Grammar : Preposition Collocations with “Be”
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