Master English ADJECTIVES + PREPOSITIONS

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Worried ABOUT prepositions? Interested IN improving your English? Join me and learn 35 common adjective and preposition pairs from basic to advanced levels. Should we say “married to” or “married with”? “Interested on” or “interested in”? “Angry at” or “angry about”? In just 15 minutes, you can feel more confident in both English grammar and vocabulary. Test your understanding with the quiz: Next, watch this lesson about prepositions and adjectives: Fix more common English mistakes with my course: In this lesson: 0:00 Use the right preposition! 0:51 nice ________ 2:52 worried _________ 4:04 good _______ 5:13 happy ________ 6:23 afraid ________ 7:35 famous ______ 8:30 married _______ 9:09 interested ________ 9:55 jealous ________ 11:27 angry ________ Transcript: This is a combined grammar and vocabulary lesson, okay? In this lesson, we're going to focus on ten adjectives and the prepositions that go with them, but along with those ten, you'll get 25 for free, okay? What do I mean by that? I mean that along with the ten adjective and preposition combinations, you'll get other expressions and vocabulary words that we can use in exactly the same way, okay? So let's see how to do that. And also, whether you're a beginner or a little more advanced, you'll still find this lesson useful because we'll take the basic expression and then we'll give you lots of other more advanced expressions and vocabulary which you can also use, okay? So let's get started. So here's the first expression. Now, I haven't put in all the answers. You're going to help me with that, right? Okay? So you have to tell me which preposition goes with these adjectives, okay? Here's the first one. That's very nice _______ you. Now, when we say "preposition", we need a preposition here. We mean a word like "in", "at", "on", "of", "with", etc., okay? Those are those little words that are called prepositions. So what's the expression here? What's the correct preposition that's missing? That's very nice _______ you. Do you know it? So we should say "That's very nice of you." That's very nice of you, okay? It's a very nice thing to say to someone. But you can also say "That's very kind of you." That's very thoughtful of you, okay? I mean, somebody who has really done something very kind and put in a lot of thought and doing something very nice for you, okay? It's very thoughtful of you. That's very generous of you, okay? Generous is somebody who maybe spends a lot of money or shares a lot of whatever they have. It doesn't have to be money. It could be their time, it could be their experience, it could be something else. Or "That's very sweet of you", okay? A lot of people say that too, especially, you know, between women, they say that a lot. That's very sweet of you. That's very nice of you, that's very kind of you, okay? So, say that out loud as I'm going through them, and that way you will get more comfortable with using it in real life, alright? And also, you'll get the pronunciation right. The more you use it, the easier it will be for you. Next, let's go to number two. He's worried something the test. What's the missing preposition? He's worried about. He's worried about the test. That's the correct preposition to use with "worried". So, we could also say, say it with me, he's nervous about the test. He's anxious about the test. He's stressed about the test. He's upset about the test. Okay? So, these are other words similar in meaning, not exactly the same. Nervous means you're, you know, what you feel before a test, a little bit scared, and so on. Anxious is similar to nervous, okay? Stressed is you're really kind of, like, freaking out because you're so worried, and upset just means you're not very happy about something, okay? Alright. So, that was "worried about". The first one was "nice of". Okay, number three. She's good _____ math. What's the preposition we need there? She's good at math. Okay? So, in English, we say somebody is good at something. We can also say somebody is bad at something. Okay? So, here are some other vocabulary words you could use in the same way. You say them with me. She's excellent at math. She's skilled at math. She's bad at math. Or she's terrible at math. "Terrible", of course, meaning very bad. And "excellent", of course, meaning very good. Okay? So, by learning this one expression, "She's good at math", you can also learn lots of other expressions. And choose the one which seems, like, more natural for you. Try to learn one or two from each set, here. Okay? Number four. I'm happy _____ the news. Which preposition do we need here? I'm happy about, okay? I'm happy about the news. Or, I'm excited about the news. Or, I'm sad about the news. Or, I'm depressed about the news. […]