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The purpose of this paper is to study the use of the alternating verbs of ditransitive construction by English native speakers and Korean learners of English. The distinctive patterns used by Korean learners are compared to native English corpus and tested by quantitative statistical analysis. In the process of learning constructions like ditransitive, Korean learners show the particular patterns that are influenced by their proficiency and their native language L1. Korean students favor dative with preposition in alternative patterns. These distinctive patterns are resulted from students’ lack of confidence on frequency level and the characteristics of L1. This study also examines how the learners handle the expressions that are not used in native corpus. It is also suggested that learners arrive enough empirical exposure to native expressions necessary for the constructional preemption.