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Verb patterns For anyone who is learning to speak or write correct English, the most important word in a sentence is the verb. For this reason the compilers of the Dictionary have paid particular attention to verb patterns. These show the learner how to use verbs to form correct sentences. A person learning English as a foreign language may be tempted to form sentences by analogy. For example, he hears or sees such sentences as Please tell me the meaning and Please show me the way (an indirect object followed by a direct object). By analogy he forms the incorrect sentence *Please explain me the meaning (instead of Please explain the meaning to me). He hears or sees such sentences as I intend to come, I propose to come, and I want to come, and by analogy he forms the incorrect sentences as *I suggest to come (instead of I suggest that I should come). He hears or sees such sentences as I asked him to come, I told him to come, and I wanted him to come, and by analogy he forms such incorrect sentences as *I proposed him to come and *I suggested him to come (instead of I proposed/suggested that he should come). He notes that He began to talk about the matter means the same as He began talking about the matter and supposes, wrongly, that He stopped to talk about the matter means the same as He stopped talking about the matter. To help the learner to avoid such mistakes, the compilers of the Dictionary have provided a set of tables in which various Verb Patterns are set out with examples. Each pattern has a numbered code (for example, [VP5], [VP6A], [VP21]), and this provides a link between the tables and the verb entries in the Dictionary, because every verb entry has its own code (or several codes if there are several meanings). A few examples will show how the learner can refer from the [VP] codes in entries to the [VP] tables in the Introduction. One of the patterns given in the Dictionary for congratulate is [VP14], and this verb is also used in one of the examples i