VERBS, ADJECTIVES, NOUNS WITH PREPOSITIONS

Starter lesson Prepositions

A

accompanied by according to account for accuse sb of accustomed to add to addicted to advantage of advice on afraid of agree on/with aim at/for/to allow for angry with sb about sth annoyed with/about/at anxious about apologise for/to/about apply to/for argue with/about arrest somebody for arrive at/in/on/by ashamed of ask for astonished at/by attached to attack on attend to attitude towards on average on aware of

B

bad at basis for be up to beg for begin with behalf of believe in belong to benefit from beware of blame somebody for borrow sth from sb break with

C

careful of/about careless about cause of certain about/of check in/out clever at close to sb/sth collaborate with combined with comment on communicate with comparison between complain about comply with concentrate on confidence in sb congratulate on congratulate sb on sth connection between consist of contact between contrast with contribute to cope with correspond to/with covered with crash into crazy about criticise sb for cruel to sb/sth cure for

D

damage to date back to deal with decide on decrease in dedicate to delay in delighted at/about demand for/from departure from depend on dependent on description of differ from difference between/of different from difficulty in/with disadvantage of disagree with disappointed in/by disappointed about/with discouraged from discussion about/on disgusted by/at dismiss from/for dispose of distance of/between divide between/among divide into do sth about doubt/doubtful about dream about/of dressed in/up/for

E

eager for engaged in sb/in sth/to enter into enthusiastic about envious of equal to escape from/to example of excited about excuse sb for sth experienced in experiment on/with expert at/in/on

F

face up to fail to do sth faithful to fall in with familiar to sb/with famous for fed up with fight with fill in/up/out finish with fond of forget about forgive for frightened of/for full of

G

genius for/to/at get along with get rid of sth give up glance at go in for go up to good at grow out of grow in/by/at/to/on guess at guilty of

H

hang up happen to happy with/about harmful to head for hear about/from/of

hear from sb/about hold on hope of/on hopeless at

I

idea of/about ill with/from impact on impressed by/with impression on sb incapable of include in/with increase in/to independent of inform of/about information about/on informed about insist on intention of interested in invest in invitation to invite sb to involve in

J

jealous of join in joke about

K

keen on keep to kind to knock at/on know of/about knowledge of

L

lack of/in laugh at leave for lend to listen to live on/at/with live up to locked in look for/at

M

mad at/about make up marriage to mean to meet up mention to mistake sb for mix with

N

name after/for necessary for/to need for/to nervous about nice to notice of

O

object to occur to offence against opinion of/on/about opposed to opposite of/to

P

patient with pay for picture of pity for/to pleased with pleasure in polite to popular with praise sb for prefer to preference for prepare for/to prevent from protect against/from protection from proud of provide sb with pull in/up punish for put through puzzled by/about/with

Q

qualified for/to quality of quick at

R

reaction to reason for receive from recover from reduction in/to refer to related to rely on report on reputation for/of responsibility for result from/in result of rise in room for

S

safe from same as scared of search for sensitive to(wards) separate from serious about shocked by/at/about shy of sick of similar to skilled at/with smile at/to/about solution to/for sorry for/about stand for/with succeed in suffer from surprised by/at suspicious of sympathetic to(wards) sympathise with

T

take care about talent for thank sb for theory in trouble think of/about tired of translate from/into trouble with typical of

U

under (no) circumstances under (no) obligation under suspicion in upset about/by/with use of

W

warn sb about/of/against waste time worry/worried about write to sb