• Look at the following pattern (construction):

    verb somebody into verb+ing something 

  • Can you make a sentence with this construction?
  • Does this sentence have a positive or negative connotation?
  • What verbs can appear in the first slot? Can you list at least three verbs that appear frequently in this structure?
  • Now let’s check in the corpus. Go to the COCA (https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/). Think how to write a query which will search for this construction. Experiment with different options.
  • Put the query in the List tab and look for matching patterns.
  • Study the 100 most frequent patterns. What verbs appear in the first and second verb slots of the construction? Does this say anything about the meaning of the construction?
Naposledy změněno: čtvrtek, 24. dubna 2025, 09.51