صفات و حروف اضافه

Adjectives and Prepositions

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy, I’ve got a very, very useful lesson for you today. So please keep watching and this lesson is all about adjectives and their corresponding prepositions I’ve had so many requests for this video so this is for you guys.

Now one of the most frustrating things about English is there are so few rules so unfortunately, these collocations between adjectives and prepositions are ones that you will just have to learn there is no real rule with them, but I’m here to help you so I’m going to do it clearly on my whiteboard and hopefully at the end of the lesson you will feel much more confident.

Here we have our first list of sentences. all using adjectives that go with a particular preposition have a look for five seconds, and see if you can work out which preposition it is. we’ve got, proud, aware, full, afraid ,and capable. Ah the preposition is, of, I am proud of my achievements. I am aware of this situation. Lucy’s glass is full of wine. Well, not yet, but it will be this evening. I am Not Afraid of spiders and you are all capable of speaking English.

And this is a hundred percent true. You are all capable of learning and speaking English. Especially with my help. Yeah, okay, now on to the next one. We’ve got the objectives, addicted, allergic, sensitive, similar and dedicated.

Which preposition do these go with take five seconds to think about it? ah the preposition was to watch how I pronounced that - - okay. So I am addicted to learning languages. This is true. I love learning languages and my flatmate is allergic to gluten.

Which is also true, poor Angelo. He is Italian and he can’t eat pizza, pasta, anything.

Can we just have a moment’s silence for Angelo. Okay my skin is sensitive to the Sun. Yes. Yes, it is. I’ve already shown you that in my Q&A video. She is similar to her mother and I Lucy from English with Lucy, a hundred percent dedicated to teaching English.

So now we’re on to the next list of sentences. Using adjectives that go with specific prepositions, and here we’ve got happy angry annoyed bored and pleased. Now some of these, do, go with more than one preposition, which I will talk about afterwards.

Ah so the preposition is. With I am very happy with my teacher. I am angry with my boyfriend. I am getting annoyed with you. I am bored with this game and Lucy is pleased with your progress.

Well done guys, I’m very pleased with your progress. Okay, so quickly I don’t want to spend too much time on this so don’t get obsessed. But there are some other prepositions. That can go with these objectives, so with happy, we can say for, or ,about, I’m so happy for you.

Or I’m really happy about getting the new job. Angry, I’m angry about what happened yesterday, or I’m really angry at my boyfriend. You can also say that, so with annoyed again. We can say about, an, at, I’m annoyed about what happened.

I’m annoyed at my boyfriend and bored. Bored technically only goes with bye. But, many, many people say of I’m bored of this. It should be bored with this, or bored by this, but you will hear bored of, I even say that sometimes though. it is incorrect and then pleased, also goes with about, or for and pleased for you. I’m pleased about this, so, now I’ve got a challenge for you.

Is slightly more difficult. Because there are two prepositions that can go in these adjectives. Some go with specifically one. Some go specifically with the other and some can be used with both. So have a think, we’ve got experienced slow fast and interested. Okay, so the prepositions were in and at, so, experienced goes with either in or at.

I’m very experienced in business. I’m very experienced at business. It means the same thing, then we have slow and fast, with at I’m slow at running and I’m not very fast at typing, and then finally we’ve got interested that goes within are you interested in politics?

For example, okay. On to our next preposition, this time we’ve got famous responsible and suitable, which preposition will it be?

Ah the preposition is for London, is famous. For being a multicultural city. That’s why I love it and you are responsible for your own actions and these shoes aren’t suitable for dancing.

Okay this is a little bonus. This is something that many students get wrong, here I have three ways of saying that you like something.

Okay, so, we’ve got I am keen tennis. I am a fan tennis. and I am fond boot tennis.

Do you know which preposition goes with which phrase? Have a think. Okay did you get it right? I am keen on tennis. I am a fan of tennis. and I am fond of tennis.

So, we’ve got on, of, of and these are very very important phrases. We use them a lot. It’s very British to say, instead of, Oh, I don’t like pasta. I’m not keen on pasta. or I’m not fond of past. or I’m not a fan of pastas. so we can use it in a negative way as well as the positive way.

Just a reminder if you want to use it in the negative way, and we have to put here not I’m not keen on, I’m not a fan of, and I’m not fond of.

Okay, I hope that helps anyone who’s doing a b1 exam. You will need to know this associate the Cambridge pet the FCE you will need to know these sentences.

So that’s it for my lesson, about adjectives and prepositions that go together.

I hope you know something I hope you enjoyed it.