动词是英语最容易犯错的此类，下面是小编分享的大学英语常见动词错误用法，希望能帮到大家!
①He remained in the Holiday Inn.
②The flowers stayed on the branches.
英语的remain是“留下来”;stay是“暂住”。显然的，①和 ② 是不合逻辑的，
remained 和stayed必须互换。
③A crook robbed her money.
④A 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，③和④的robbed和stole要掉转一下。
⑤ Sam raises very early every morning.
⑥ 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 ⑤ 和⑥都错;raises和rises必须对换才对。
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。
