著者

井上 聡

出版者

環太平洋大学

雑誌

環太平洋大学研究紀要 = Bulletin of International Pacific University (ISSN:1882479X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.105-113, 2015-03-30

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The variation of verbs which are followed by gerund varies widely, and as many as 74 kinds are presented in previous studies. In order to promote learners’ understanding about the usage, the term ‘megafeps’ (Egawa, 1991) is often used, including mind, miss, enjoy, give up, admit, avoid, finish, escape, practice, put off, postpone, stop and suggest. Based on three types of corpus, (native speaker, learner, and textbook), the following findings have identified: The verbs used most frequently are stop, avoid, consider, enjoy and risk, but learners underuse consider and risk. It is important to review English teachers’ explicit knowledge about the usage of megafeps.