{"id":37,"date":"2009-08-24T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-08-24T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:14:38","slug":"verbs-prepositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2009\/08\/24\/verbs-prepositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbs and Prepositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our intermediate English posts are going to be written only in English and our first topic is going to be <em>verbs and prepositions<\/em>. Many students think that speaking English is like speaking Portuguese in other words but that is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see some examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>We talked about the problem.<br \/>\nHe apologized for what he had done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the object of the preposition is a verb, it comes in the <strong>\u2013ing<\/strong> form (<em>gerund<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>We talked <strong>about <\/strong>travel<strong>ing<\/strong> to the south next year.<br \/>\nHe apologized <strong>for <\/strong>arriv<strong>ing<\/strong> late.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some more examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m thinking <strong>of <\/strong>go<strong>ing<\/strong><\/em><em> to work on foot today. It\u2019s such a beautiful morning.<br \/>\nI wanted to pay but he insisted <strong>on <\/strong>pay<strong>ing<\/strong> for my sandwich.<br \/>\nThey talked about it a lot and decided <strong>against <\/strong>mov<strong>ing<\/strong> to a smaller town.<br \/>\nI would never dream <strong>of <\/strong>lett<strong>ing<\/strong> my daughter date that kind of man.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t approve <strong>of <\/strong>kids stay<strong>ing<\/strong> out in the streets late at night.<br \/>\nDo you feel <strong>like <\/strong>go<strong>ing<\/strong> to the movies tonight?<br \/>\nI congratulated him <strong>on <\/strong>pass<strong>ing<\/strong> that difficult exam.<br \/>\nWe wanted the car but he warned us <strong>against <\/strong>buy<strong>ing<\/strong> it.<br \/>\nForgive me <strong>for <\/strong>arriv<strong>ing<\/strong> so late, I got stuck in traffic.<br \/>\nThe rain prevented us <strong>from <\/strong>go<strong>ing <\/strong>out.<br \/>\nI want to thank you <strong>for <\/strong>help<strong>ing<\/strong> me with this project.<br \/>\nThe snow stopped me <strong>from <\/strong>driv<strong>ing<\/strong> home.<br \/>\nHe accused me <strong>of <\/strong>steal<strong>ing<\/strong> from the company.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>HOT TIP! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no magical way to learn which preposition goes with each verb so whenever you come across a combination verb + preposition, write the sentence down and try writing your own example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our intermediate English posts are going to be written only in English and our first topic is going to be verbs and prepositions. Many students think that speaking English is like speaking Portuguese in other words but that is not the case. Let\u2019s see some examples: We talked about the problem. He apologized for what&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2009\/08\/24\/verbs-prepositions\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[225062],"tags":[226534],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-intermediario","tag-artigos-gramatica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}