tailieunhanh - chuong 1-6Practical English Usage_ Part 1.6_ Michael Swan

Tham khảo tài liệu 'chuong 1-6practical english usage_ part michael swan', ngoại ngữ, anh văn giao tiếp phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | two-part verbs 2 prepositional verbs 600 I m looking forward to the party. For details of particular two-word verbs see a good dictionary. 600 two-part verbs 2 prepositional verbs 1 verb preposition listen to look at Many English verbs are regularly followed by prepositions before objects. You never listen to me. not You never listen me. Alan walked down the road without looking at anybody. Prepositions are not used when there is no object. Listen not Listen to 2 idiomatic meanings look after get over The meaning of a two-word verb can be very different from the meanings of the two parts taken separately. Could you look after the kids while I m out Look after is not the same as look after. It took him six months to get over his illness. Get over is not the same as get over. 3 word order What are you thinking about When an object comes at the beginning of a clause . in a question or relative clause a two-word verb usually stays together so that a preposition can be separated from its object and go at the end of the clause. For details of this and other preposition-final structures see 452. What are you thinking about not About what are you thinking I ve found the book which I was looking for. More natural in an informal style than . the book for which I was looking. For the difference between prepositions and adverb particles see 20. For prepositional verbs in the passive see 416. 601 unless 1 meaning Unless has a similar meaning to if. not in the sense of except if . Come tomorrow unless I phone. . if I don t phone except if I phone. I ll take the job unless the pay is too low. if the pay isn t too low except if the pay is too low. I ll be back tomorrow unless there s a plane strike. Let s have dinner out - unless you re too tired. I m going to dig the garden this afternoon unless it rains. 2 when unless cannot be used Unless means except if . Unless is not used when the meaning is more like because . not . Compare - OK. So we ll meet this evening at - .