Thread: surprised
View Single Post
  #7 (permalink)  
Unread Jul 8th, 2016, 06:55 am
susan53 susan53 is offline
Sue
  
Join Date: Oct 8th, 2006
Location: Milan
Posts: 1,406
susan53 is on a distinguished road
Default Re: surprised
to + infinitive

Using a corpus of 3m words, both US and UK English, I got the following results :

surprised to + infinitive : 16 occurrences
surprised at + gerund : 0 occurrences

surprised at plus other form of noun phrase eg with noun head or pronoun) : 18 occurrences
__________________
An ELT Notebook
The DELTA Course
Reply With Quote