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Originally Posted by Casiopea  Correction
Your sentence is correct don't change anything. Listened to is a one-word unit, a phrasal verb. The second to is a preposition.
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Well, I couldn't say that
listen to is a 'real'
phrasal verb. To me, a 'real'
phrasal verb is a verb with particles (adverbs and/or prepositions) that is difficult to understand because the meaning of the whole phrase is different to the meaning of the verb that the phrasal verb is comprised of.
Listen is an intransitive verb. And when we need to use it with an object, we use the
prepositional phrase with
'to'.
Whenever he speaks, everyone listens (to him/to his words/to what he's got to say).
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