Involve(d) in

Posted by Pak Guru on August 31st, 2016 | 0 comments | EAP, IELTS, Indo English, speaking, terlibat, vocabulary, writing

Giving a challenge for human workers to involve in controlling machines is a good idea.

Involve as adjective

You got the preposition right, but the wrong form of ‘involve’. This is nearly always constructed as an ‘ed’ adjective phrase:

• Giving a challenge for human workers to be involved in controlling machines is a good idea.

‘Get’ also collocates strongly with ‘involved in’, as does the more formal ‘become’:

• Giving a challenge for human workers to get/become involved in controlling machines is a good idea.

It’s not always necessary to mention the activity that someone is involved in:

• I’m involved.

 For Indonesians there are easy translations for involved as adjective:

• involved – terlibat
• (to be) involved in – terlibat dalam

Involve as a verb

If you want to use involve as a verb, usually there is an indirect object:

• I rarely involve myself in politics.

 Again, for Indonesians there is an easy translation.

• to involve + someone + in + something – melibatkan … dalam …

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