English Common Preposition Adjective Combinations

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we are going to talk about common

adjective and preposition

combinations for example angry with

or surprised by i’ve chosen a

bunch that we use a lot in everyday life

and we’re going to talk about

how to put the correct adjective and

preposition

together so you don’t mix them up we

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topic

is as i said about common adjective and

preposition combinations so

we’ve got um let’s see one two three

four five six seven

seven that we’re going to cover today

i’ll show you today’s

lesson boards right now so you can take

a picture

uh if you like and then we’ll get

started so

this is what we’re going to talk about

today we’re going to talk about

all of these groups of adjective and

preposition and some of these adjectives

can be used

with more than one preposition okay

so you might think to yourself during

in today’s lesson you might say wait can

i use this adjective

with this preposition and this

preposition yes

there are many different combinations

that are possible so today

we’re going to talk about a bunch and

you can send me your example sentences

live i will try to check

uh and get back to you okay everybody is

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ready let’s get started

okay first one let’s begin with these

two so a common theme for today’s lesson

is emotions we use a lot of these pairs

to express

our emotions how we feel about something

so let’s get started with this first

group

also important i chose some very common

adjectives to practice for today’s

lesson

but there are many other adjectives you

can use

to follow this pattern to practice this

read reading is a great way to practice

this and to pick up

more adjectives here so let’s take a

look

the first preposition i want to focus on

is two two so for this practice

i’ve chosen these adjectives we can use

happy

excited sad nice hard this hard means

is difficult it means difficult not hard

like a surface

difficult scared and afraid so these are

adjectives we use with to

and the infinitive form of a verb the

base form of a verb

so happy to something excited to

something you can send your example

with one of these or if you want if you

know a different adjective

that follows this pattern you can try so

for example i’m happy to see you

i’m happy to see you i’m happy to see

you we cannot use

four here we cannot say i’m happy for

see you incorrect

i’m happy to see you

another example she’s excited to

go she’s excited to go so

that means she’s excited about the

prospect about the idea

of going somewhere it’s a different way

to say it much longer way

she’s excited to go we’re sad

to leave we’re sad to leave so we don’t

say we’re sad for

leave i think i see lots of mistakes

where learners like to use

four maybe here so please use two

another one everybody i think knows this

one maybe

it’s nice to meet you it’s nice to meet

you right so this too

comes before meat it’s nice to meet you

okay

and one more it’s hard to stop

eating these cookies it’s hard to stop

eating these cookies so again this hard

means difficult it’s hard or it’s

difficult

to stop eating these cookies okay

we can also use scared and afraid of

this

like for example she’s scared to try

or i’m afraid to go so all of these

adjectives can be used with

two okay uh alaratam says i’m

overwhelmed to start over with my essay

good

okay uh khanwajit says it’s very hard to

convince him about the trip

nice examples okay other ones

oh some people skipped ahead to about

raquel wright he was livid

about the car crash good good good we’ll

get to the next part in a second

okay other examples with two i’m trying

to check your two examples

uh libra says i’m excited to present my

emotion maybe i’m excited to present

maybe my project or i’m excited to

present my

paper we don’t use uh present with our

emotions really okay very nice it’s hard

to stop playing this song says david

very nice

okay uh zu zuzan says i’m scared to

watch horror movies me too

i really i have a hard time with horror

movies good

uh itsumi on facebook says i’m happy to

meet you again

good a-ron says i’m afraid to fly okay

great examples everybody all right all

right

uh byron i was afraid to lose this class

ah

close i was afraid to miss we use miss

for classes i was afraid to miss this

class

okay everybody is doing a great job very

nice job let’s go to the next one about

about so you can see these adjectives

many adjectives here

are the same so we can use many

adjectives with different prepositions

that’s okay

no problem but be careful because

we cannot use a verb with this pattern

in the first pattern we use two with the

infinitive verb yeah

here we’re using about plus a noun

so let’s look at this what’s the

difference here okay

i’m happy about my test i’m happy about

my test

i got a good score i’m happy about my

test

so we cannot say i’m happy to my test

nope incorrect

incorrect i’m happy about my test we

don’t say i’m happy

of my test either okay

another example we’re excited about

the movie we’re excited about the movie

we use this pattern we’re excited about

or

i’m excited about when something is

coming up in the future like short term

like i’m excited about my next vacation

or i’m excited about that class so we

use this to talk about

something we are looking forward to i’m

excited about

something okay oh my gosh facebook has

many ads okay

let’s go the next one i’m sad about that

i’m sad about that so you can use these

kinds of patterns

that you can use that or this

uh to refer to uh the object of your

emotion like i’m angry about that

or i’m happy about that so that makes a

lot of sense in conversation you don’t

have to repeat

uh the topic every time okay

good example uh nohorah says i’m happy

about the holidays yeah

great great good okay other topics

hi everybody just joining thank you for

your nice comments

says i’m happy about our victory very

nice very nice example

on facebook john carlos says how about

mad yes you can use mad here so i have

angry but you can use mad in this

uh in this pattern okay

all right oh alaratam says i’m not

afraid about the roller coaster good try

but when we want to express fear

with afraid we use of i’m going to talk

about that later

you notice it’s not here we don’t use

afraid and about

together good try really good try okay

i’m happy about my car says haseeb

your car okay so did you get a new car

are you happy with it okay um can we use

i’m sad about you are sick no

so this noun here notice in this pattern

this noun

we use my test a movie this or that

competition so we don’t use really

a pronoun like you

for example we might say i’m sad to

hear you are sick i’m sad to hear

you are sick okay let’s look at some

more examples

he’s nervous about the competition

he’s nervous about the competition so

again

this competition is just a noun here

we’re not using

a person i guess with this one

we might in some situations use

uh a person after this for example he’s

nervous

about her maybe like a date he’s going

on he’s nervous about her

but that’s a very specific situation

generally we use

uh just a simple noun here okay

uh good let’s go to the next one

she’s worried about her friend

she’s worried about her friend okay

and one more i think my roommate is

angry

about something angry about something

quick point here angry

uh we can use we’ve seen angry here

uh and we’ll see angry in some other

points later

this sentence uses angry about something

yeah

so when you want to express angry

feelings you’re angry

you want to use about when you have

a noun after it angry about something

some thing is the key when you want to

talk about a

person we’ll practice later angry with

him angry with her or you might hear

angry at me so we don’t use

about with angry to talk about

people okay sauron says we are worried

about kovid19

very nice example xiang says i’m

make sure to use this one i’m nervous

about covid19

great job okay uh nookie says i believe

my wife is angry

with me angry with me so at this point

this about point make sure to use about

when we follow it with

this noun competition test movie for

people

use with okay nohora a good example i

think he’s angry about

my decision very nice very nice okay

oh my gosh there are many comments hello

everyone joining today

many people joining today uh angry about

something

angry with person says oh sushi in the

youtube chat

perfect perfect do you have instagram

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description

i’m pretty excited so not convoluted i’m

pretty much excited pretty much means

kind of like so-so

so i’m pretty excited about our new

project uh

i’m nervous about her looks to me i’m

not quite sure what that one means i’m

nervous about

the way she looked at me maybe des roses

says can i say i’m sad about this news

yeah you could say that or maybe i’m sad

to hear that

we use that more commonly all right

many good example sentences here

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let’s talk about three more prepositions

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in part two we’re going to practice with

by

and in so again uh

this uh this list i prepared

this uh doesn’t include all the

adjectives you can use

many many different adjectives uh in

these patterns as i talked about before

but

i’ve just chosen some very common ones

okay so please remember you can use

others you can practice in the live chat

today

okay let’s take a look let’s take a look

so

first with angry happy and gentle

i chose these three adjectives to

practice here

angry happy gentle with a noun

or a pronoun so i just

talked about this point yeah angry with

person angry with me angry with her and

so on

we can use happy with something or

someone or gentle with something

or someone so let’s look at some

examples

of this with pattern for example

my mom is angry with me my mom is angry

with me

oh no you might also hear my mom is

angry

at me at me that’s also okay

uh angry at we don’t use at

with happy or gentle here so

if it’s difficult to remember just

remember with just use with they mean

the same thing

angry at and angry with okay

next one i’m happy with my haircut

i’m happy with my haircut so you might

think this

width sounds really strange right like

some you do something

together with your hair no we just mean

i like my haircut it makes me happy we

express

that with i’m happy with my haircut

i’m happy with something so we use this

pattern i’m happy with

something after often after we make a

decision

and we feel it was a good decision like

i’m happy with my new apartment

or i’m happy with my job or i’m happy

with my plans for vacation i’m excited

so we use this a lot after we make a

good decision

i’m happy with something rundle says i’m

happy with the gnarly waves today

cool okay nice uh

other oh my gosh there are so many

examples coming in

i’m happy with the new song driver’s

license by olivia rodrico okay

sophie your quest or your statement is

100

correct i would say i really like the

new

song driver’s license so like i

mentioned

this pattern we tend to use it when we

make a decision for ourselves

and we feel good about that okay saram

says be gentle with the teacher

good example uh marvin warble says he

has he has been gentle with the

customers okay

so maybe please be gentle with the

customers don’t be aggressive

okay yeah let’s look at this last one be

gentle

with the baby be gentle with the baby

so that means be nice to the baby don’t

be loud or noisy

or i don’t know too tough so be gentle

with the baby okay amelia says i’m happy

with myself

yeah very positive expression very nice

i am happy

with myself good daniel says i’m happy

with my life here in brazil very nice

very nice okay uh jermaine says i’m

happy with my new business

good chosen says i’m happy with my

clothes good

byron says i’m angry with myself is it

okay yeah good question

when you feel the opposite of happy you

feel you made a bad decision

you can say i’m angry with myself or

yeah i’m angry um i guess we would say

i’m angry with myself or i’m

upset with myself yeah something that

expresses

that or i’m angry at myself we might use

that too

yes you can okay good examples let’s go

to the next preposition

bye bye okay so here

i chose three adjectives again

surprised amazed and

inspired surprised by amazed by

and inspired by i chose these because i

see a lot of mistakes

often with the adjective that is used

you’ll notice in today’s lesson the

adjectives

are all ed adjectives yeah surprised

amazed inspired

we’re not using surprising or amazing or

inspiring here

right that’s because these forms

we use to express our emotions and

that’s the goal

with these sentence patterns so

surprised by a noun or a pronoun

just like here yeah for example i was

surprised

by his honesty i was surprised by his

honesty

so not two not of not four

i was surprised by his honesty

okay next one amazed so something that

causes you to feel amazed

amazed by something we were amazed by

your singing we were amazed by your

singing

and one more inspired inspired i’m

inspired by you i’m inspired by you

you could say you inspire me as well so

there are different ways

to say these things okay um

all right i don’t see any question oh

remy michelle i’m inspired with be

careful i’m inspired

bye i’m inspired by so we use with

with these we don’t use inspired with we

use

inspired by then it’s perfect okay

others i was surprised by her honest

secret mind star on youtube very close

honesty

honest is an adjective we need a noun

here honesty

is the noun okay emz cresco on facebook

says

i will i was surprised by my friend okay

good uh lucia says i am happy with my

happy day

you have very positive sentences

everybody that’s great

okay carol on youtube says i’m surprised

by his behavior

okay lian nguyen says i’m amazed by

fireworks

fireworks plural there good nilam says

i’m inspired by your teaching very nice

that’s awesome thank you

cool okay um

i’m looking for your questions uh

i’m amazed by okay two people are

writing about looks when you want to

talk about someone’s appearance

you want to use this like i was amazed

by her looks where i’m amazed

by his looks you can use that

looks plural we use looks

to describe someone’s physical

appearance

okay all right

uh okay we need to move on to the next

one there are many comments oh my

goodness oh my goodness

there are many comments great job

everybody okay

let’s go to the last one there are only

two

i chose these because this one right

here is so

important interested and disappointed

interested

in something interested in something i

see

this mistake interested to or interested

for i see this mistake in the comments

so

often so much so please remember this is

your

very very very important point for today

interested

in something for example i’m

interested in space travel i’m

interested in space travel

or i’m interested in cooking i’m

interested in

your favorite topic so i’m interested in

something please please please remember

this

is your friend this in this is your

friend this preposition is your friend

in this pattern okay i’m interested in

then this second example disappointed

so that feeling your expectation was not

met parents use this pattern right here

my parents said this to me when i did

something bad when i was a little kid

we’re disappointed in you

we’re disappointed in you oh that feels

bad

so when your parents say we’re

disappointed in

you it means you did not meet our

expectations we expected you

to behave really well to be a good kid

but you did not

so we’re disappointed in you

hi mom and dad if you’re watching okay

so please use in in these cases i’m

interested in

and we’re disappointed in some good

examples are coming in with this many

people

many people are writing i’m interested

in learning english very nice or i’m

interested in

this video very good um

byron i’m disappointed for your attitude

nope not for

in i’m disappointed in or i’m

disappointed

in you probably or i’m disappointed

maybe about

your attitude we might say that okay

what does inspired mean to someone on

youtube inspired means

you cause someone to feel motivated or

energetic about their work or their

passions

so maybe your favorite artist makes you

feel inspired you want to try

something new okay many people are

writing i’m interested in your teaching

okay i’m interested in this video i’m

interested in

learning english so some of you

right here at this point use a noun

after this

so not i’m interested in learn learn is

a verb

i’m interested in learning english

i’m interested in learning english use

the

ing form there

uh okay others oh my gosh there are so

many i’m interested in learning a

language and learning english

interested in the lesson okay

everybody’s doing a good job with

interested

great great okay time’s going quick i

need to go to the last point for today’s

lesson thank you for your awesome

example sentences let’s just finish uh

quickly i won’t take another break

until the end we have two more just two

more to practice today

so let’s take a look all right um

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this is of and this one at the bottom

is four so let’s take a look scared

afraid jealous and tired

of noun okay so

these you’ll notice these are kind of

negative

yeah but i noticed that lots of people

make mistakes especially with this one

tired so let’s look at some examples

i’m scared of snakes or

she’s afraid of heights

the difference between scared and afraid

in this sentence

there’s no difference you can choose

which you prefer

like you could say i’m afraid of snakes

or

i’m scared of heights both are 100

correct

okay so you don’t have to worry about

remembering

the difference heights by the way

heights

with this s at the end heights means

very very high places

very very tall places like the top of a

building

some people don’t like high places

that’s called

heights i’m scared of heights or she’s

afraid of heights

another one jealous jealous don’t be

jealous

of your neighbor don’t be jealous of

your neighbor

sometimes i see learners write too here

don’t be jealous

to your neighbor so we don’t use

two jealous two we don’t use don’t be

jealous

of your neighbor don’t be jealous of

your neighbor

okay and one more we’re so tired

of changing our plans we’re so tired

of changing our plans so this one

tired of i see this one a lot i think

learners tend to use

two here i see that every once in a

while

tired of something tired of something

i’m tired of this weather or i’m so

tired of not sleeping well at night

tired

of something i’m tired of doing a lot of

homework

carol instead of many homeworks and i’m

tired of doing

a lot of homework okay what is the

difference between study and studies

well it depends on the sentence but

grammar generally different study

is the base form studies is the form we

use

after he or she or it could refer

to someone’s topic

of learning don’t be jealous of your

sisters

someone okay i’m jealous of my friends

as strong good okay

uh nahora i’m so tired of this strike

very good

kanwajit i’m tired of his excuses good

gurpreet says don’t be jealous of your

partner good okay

hamid says i’m so tired of the

quarantine yeah that’s a great example

everybody almost everybody in the world

is so tired of

yeah the different the different types

of lockdown and quarantine

great example okay um

i’m tired of the pandemic yep for sure

for sure

absolutely okay uh

john carlos orale is it also correct to

use two

with scared we talked about it in the

very first part of today’s lesson

if you missed it you can review after

the lesson finishes so yes you can

but the grammar changes okay let’s go to

the last point because i’m late

already okay the last point for today

is this last preposition four four here

so what can we use with four here are

some very common examples

we have happy for ready for

late and early for and good and bad for

so again there are more adjectives we

can use with this pattern

but these are very common so

we use this with a noun or a pronoun so

no verbs

no verbs please so noun or pronoun for

example

i’m happy for you i’m happy for you

please remember this one it’s great to

use when you hear

good news from your friend from your

co-worker from your classmate

when you feel happy for another person

so your friend is happy you feel happy

you can say

i’m happy for you i’m happy for you okay

someone says i’m so happy for you alicia

did i do something so usually

we use this phrase after your friend

or someone you know had like great

success

in something or they achieved something

good i’m so happy for you

you got engaged or you got married or

you got a great new job i’m so happy for

you

so please remember this it’s a very nice

expression

okay next are you ready for

the meeting are you ready for the

meeting

this is a great one for work situations

are you ready for the meeting not to

uh are you ready to the meeting nope are

you ready

for the meeting are you ready for the

presentation

are you ready for our discussion so

please use

for okay you can also use this for meals

like hey are you ready for lunch

or if you want to use two in that case

use a verb are you ready to go to lunch

so it’s possible to use a different

preposition

but the grammar changes okay

all right next uh we’re late for dinner

we’re late for dinner so you can use

this

again with late the opposite kind of

ready we’re late uh for dinner so not

prepared for something

we’re late for dinner or we’re late for

the meeting or we’re late for the flight

okay here early then the opposite of

late

always arrive early for

your flight always arrive early for

your flight okay some examples are

coming in good yasir says i’m happy for

i and great

great are you ready for our trip says

emerald good

okay um acharya says are you ready

uh to go home so we can’t use

four with a verb we can’t say four go

are you ready to go home is okay are you

ready

to go home it’s okay okay

uh others others are i’m ready to go

anywhere in the world says cho very nice

secret mind star says i’m late for

breakfast oh

please eat so okay uh we’re late for the

flight says javier

great good examples everyone let’s go to

our last pair

good and bad good and bad we use good

and bad a lot

when we talk about food when we talk

about our diet

something that is good for you is

healthy food

something that is bad for you is junk

food not healthy food

so for example we might say this

i don’t know this salad is good for me

or this salad is good for you

so that means it’s healthy another

example

this opportunity is good for me

this opportunity is good for me this

opportunity is good for me

or on the other hand something bad so

not healthy

dangerous maybe chocolate is bad for

dogs

chocolate is bad for dogs so you can use

these two

to talk about personal health quite

often

or other examples like these

all right uh good saram i’m ready for

the meeting i’m ready for the meeting uh

sophia she is ready for

presentation about environment at her

school very very close

she is ready for maybe the presentation

or maybe she’s ready for her

presentation

so make sure don’t forget a little

article there she’s ready for

the presentation uh mommy isham

pine i hope i said that right says

vegetables are good for the body perfect

perfect neelam says this class is good

is

good for me this class is good for me

vahid says what a disgusting food it’s

bad for us good

okay very nice examples everybody great

great everyone is doing a great job with

this

people are saying i’m ready for today

i’m ready for a date

ooh it says bagage frank on facebook

is it true okay great examples everybody

oh my gosh i have to finish i’m late i’m

very late oh my gosh i have to finish

so i’ll show you today’s lesson boards

you can take a picture

and practice and of course as i said

there are many other adjectives and some

other prepositions

that we use too but today i wanted to

practice some very common ones

so that you can practice uh and check

your books when you read

uh to understand which ones are the best

to use or very very good to know good to

practice with

so that’s it for today but next week

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will be here may 19th that is a

wednesday

uh 10 p.m eastern standard time that is

new york city

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next week i’m going to talk about common

phrasal verbs to express

movement movement so you always ask me

for phrasal verb lessons

next week i’ve chosen to do a phrasal

verb lesson we’re going to practice

movement an action related phrasal verb

so i hope that’s helpful for you so

please join me again

next week for that lesson all right i

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goodbye now but thank you very much for

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and your awesome example sentences that

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