下面就来详细谈谈。先看这两个句子：
① Sam raises very early every morning.
② The monitor rises his hand to ask a question.
大家知道，raise是个及物动词，意思是“举起”，要有宾语； rise是个不及物动词，意思是“起身”，不可有宾语。这里的①和② 都错；raises和rises必须对换才对。
③ He remained in the Holiday Inn.
④ The flowers stayed on the branches.
英语的remain是“留下来”；stay是“暂住”。显然的，③和④ 是不合逻辑的，remained 和stayed必须互换。
⑤ A crook robbed her money.
⑥ A few masked men stole a small bank last night.
虽然robbed和stole都是及物动词，有自己的宾语，但是它们在这里的用法不当。Steal要跟着被偷的东西，如钱财、珠宝等；rob的宾语是“人”或“处所”。因此，⑤和⑥的robbed和stole要掉转一下。
类似的例子还有下面这些：
⑦ a. mend b. repair
这两个动词都是“修理”；不同的是：简单的工作，用mend；复杂的或需要特别仪器的事项，则用repair，如：
⑦a. You can mend the broken part of the page with glue.
⑦b. It took some time to repair the road.
⑧a. burned b. burnt
这两个动词是burn的过去式和过去分词；在句子中的岗位不同，通常有宾语时用“burnt”，没宾语时用“burned”，如：
⑧a. The love of freedom burned in our hearts./ The candle has burned brightly for the whole night.
⑧b. Who has burnt the paper?/ Jane burnt all the letters from her former boyfriend.
至于“动词”和“助动+介词”的误用，我们可以看下面两组例子：
⑨ The police searched the suspects in the shopping centre, but nobody was arrested.
⑩ I searched for my pocket and found some coins.
从语感就知道，⑨和⑩里的searched和searched for是倒置了。 ⑨要的是“寻找”（searched for）；⑩要的是“检查”（searched ），两者对换才是。
(11) The boy says when he grows, he will be a teacher.
(12) Their business grows up rapiding.
英语的grow是“发展”；grow up是“长大”。显然的，(11)和(12) 的两个动词又误用了，要对调一下。
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