Preposition-Dependent Verbs and Adjectives
Ricardo Schütz
Última atualização: 4 de dezembro de 2008Tanto em inglês como em português existem certas palavras, especialmente verbos e adjetivos, que quase sempre são acompanhados de uma determinada preposição, tornando-se dessa forma inseparáveis. Uma vez que dificilmente pode-se estabelecer uma correlação direta e consistente entre preposições do inglês e do português, uma lista dessas palavras dependentes de preposições pode ajudar o aluno a evitar o uso incorreto de preposições.
A diferença entre preposition-dependent verbs (PDV) e multi-words verbs, é que nos primeiros, a ocorrência da preposição não altera o significado do verbo, enquanto que nos multi-word verbs, o verbo pode também ocorrer sem a preposição, mas quando ocorrer com a preposição, haverá provavelmente uma significativa alteração de significado. PDVs podem ser considerados um subcategoria de prepositional verbs (inseparable two-word verbs).
PREPOSITION-DEPENDENT VERBS
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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 believe in belong to beware of blame someone for boast about borrow something from someone brag about buy something for someone 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 |
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 excel in exchange something for excuse someone for expect someone to find something for someone fine someone for forget about forgive someone for give something to someone hope for interfere with/in introduce to invite someone to leave for some place leave something for someone lend something to someone listen to long for mistake someone for |
offer something to someone 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 refer to rely on/upon rescue from respond to |
PREPOSITION-DEPENDENT ADJECTIVES
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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 bored with/by close to cluttered with committed to compatible with composed of concerned about confronted with connected to conscious of consistent with content with contrary to convinced of coordinated with covered with crowded with |
devoted to disappointed with discriminated against divorced from done with dressed in envious of equipped with equivalent to excited about exhausted from exposed to familiar with filled with finished with fond of friendly to/with frightened of/by full of furnished with grateful to/for guilty of interested in invited to involved in |
located in married to pleased with polite to prepared for protected from proud of relevant to remembered for responsible for scared of/by suitable for tired of/from used to useful to |