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[merry glade]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[compact fractal]

verb usage? What do you mean?

if you're curious about a specific grammar point, I recommend you google that + lawless french, it probably has an article about it

[onyx summit]

For example i just found out that the word permettre requires the preposition a to introduce the recipient and then it also requires the preposition de before an infinitive verb

So grammar rules like that

[compact fractal]

so indeed this is the kind of thing you can find articles for on Lawless French: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/a-vs-de-2/

regarding the situation you gave, prepositions are a pain in that what to use after a given verb depends on the exact verb and construction.
Some constructions use no preposition, some use à, some use de.
There are some patterns, for instance communication verbs use à for the most part (parler à, demander à, etc) but at the end of the day it depends on the verb and it can be kinda random.
These following links list some verbs that use "à" or "de" when followed by a noun or verb for instance

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/verbs-with-a/
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/verbs-with-de/

[onyx summit]

Yes its been confusing

Thanks will read through them

[compact fractal]

because of the irregular nature of this rule, they're mostly lists with only basic explanation (there isn't much to understand).
You can skim through, but the important part is to understand the general concept

[onyx summit]

Ok will do

[grand pumice]

@onyx summit I also found lots of material for every tense on this site: https://www.lepointdufle.net/p/apprendre_le_francais.htm#ancr5