Verb-Preposition Collocations 2

In the previous module, you reviewed some German verb-preposition collocations (VPCs).  It is important to know, however, that one and the same verb may be followed by different prepositions or by other words that look like prepositions.  Let’s review a few such cases.

Activity 1

First, let’s review concordance sets for three word strings with the verb denken (other than the most frequent denken an) and choose which of the following statements explains the pattern that you notice.  If you find the text hard to read, you can click on the image to get a larger version, or you can go directly to the DWDS Corpus using the links provided below the images.

Activity 2

Choose the correct preposition/ particle from the drop-down menu [an, in, über, um] to complete the following sentences taken from the DWDS corpus.