Preposition-Dependent Verbs and Adjectives

Ricardo Schtz
ltima atualizao: 4 de dezembro de 2008

Tanto em ingls como em portugus existem certas palavras, especialmente verbos e adjetivos, que quase sempre so acompanhados de uma determinada preposio, tornando-se dessa forma inseparveis. Uma vez que dificilmente pode-se estabelecer uma correlao direta e consistente entre preposies do ingls e do portugus, uma lista dessas palavras dependentes de preposies pode ajudar o aluno a evitar o uso incorreto de preposies. A diferena entre preposition-dependent verbs (PDV) e multi-words verbs, que nos primeiros, a ocorrncia da preposio no altera o significado do verbo, enquanto que nos multi-word verbs, o verbo pode tambm ocorrer sem a preposio, mas quando ocorrer com a preposio, haver provavelmente uma significativa alterao de significado. PDVs podem ser considerados um subcategoria de prepositional verbs (inseparable two-word verbs). PREPOSITION-DEPENDENT VERBS
A abide by abstain from accuse someone of add something to something adhere to advise someone to agree on/with aim at/for allow for apologize for apply to/for approve of argue with/about arise from arrest someone for arrive in/at ask for attend to B beg for believe in belong to beware of blame someone for boast about borrow something from someone brag about buy something for someone D deal with decide about/on/upon depend on/upon disagree on/with discriminate against distinguish from do research on/into/about do something for someone dream of/about E escape from excel in exchange something for excuse someone for expect someone to F face up to find something for someone fine someone for forget about forgive someone for G get something for someone give something to O object to offer something to someone P participate in something pay for something pay something to someone persist in praise someone for pray for prepare for present someone with prevent someone/something from prohibit someone from protect someone/something from protest about provide someone/something with punish someone for R recover from refer to rely on/upon rescue from respond to S save someone from sell something to someone

someone H hide from hope for C call for care about/for choose between comment on compare to/with complain about/of comply with conceal something from concentrate on condemn someone for conform to congratulate someone on/for something consent to consist of contribute to cook something for someone count on/upon cure someone of a disease I insist on/upon interfere with/in introduce to invite someone to J joke about L laugh at leave for some place leave something for someone lend something to someone listen to long for M make something for someone mistake someone for send something to someone sentence someone to show something to someone smile at stare at stop from subscribe to substitute for succeed in suffer from T take advantage/care of talk with/to someone about something thank someone for think of/about V volunteer to vote for W wait for warn someone about worry about

PREPOSITION-DEPENDENT ADJECTIVES
abreast of absent from accused of/by accustomed to acquainted with addicted to adjacent to afraid of / to (infinitive) angry at annoyed with/by associated with aware of blessed with bored with/by capable of close to cluttered with committed to compatible with composed of concerned about dedicated to devoted to disappointed with discriminated against divorced from done with dressed in engaged in/to envious of equipped with equivalent to excited about exhausted from exposed to faithful to familiar with filled with finished with fond of friendly to/with frightened of/by known for limited to located in made of/from married to opposed to patient with pleased with polite to prepared for protected from proud of qualified for related to relevant to remembered for responsible for

confronted with connected to conscious of consistent with content with contrary to convinced of coordinated with covered with crowded with

full of furnished with gone from grateful to/for guilty of innocent of interested in invited to involved in jealous of

satisfied with scared of/by suitable for terrified of/by tired of/from upset with used to useful to worried about

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