VERBS WITH PREPOSITIONS
a. ‘about:
agree, care, complain to somebody, explain, hear, know, learn, protest, remind, speak,
talk, think, write.
b. ‘at:
arrive, glance, grin, laugh, look, point, protest, shoot, shout, smile, stare, work
c. ‘for’:
apologise, apply, ask, campaign, care, hope, leave, pay, qualify, search, wait
d. ‘from’:
die, hear, hide, suffer
e. ‘in’:
arrive, believe, result, take part in
f. ‘into’:
crash, drive, run, translate
g. ‘of’:
approve, complain to somebody, consist, die, dream, hear, know, remind, speak, talk,
think
h. ‘on’:
agree, concentrate, congratulate, count, depend, insist, plan, rely, spend
g. ‘to’:
apologise, appeal, belong, commit, complain, explain, get married, happen, lead, listen, refer,
relate, say, speak, talk, write
i. ‘with’:
agree, argue, disagree, suffer, sympathize
NO PREPOSITION (common mistakes):
ask (someone), marry (someone), tell (someone)
These are the verbs listed above verbs can have more than one preposition:
apologise for/to, arrive at/ in, agree about/on/with, appeal to/for, care about/for, complain to somebody about/of, conform to/with, hear of/about/from, protest about/at, remind about/of, result from/in, speak about/of, suffer from/with, talk, about/to, think about/of/in.