This document discusses the use of prepositions with adjectives. Some key points: - Some adjectives can be used alone or with prepositional phrases after link verbs. - Certain adjectives require specific prepositions like "aware of" and "accustomed to". - Common prepositions used with adjectives include "of" to specify a cause or person with a quality, "to" referring to similarity or loyalty, "with" specifying a cause of feeling, "at" referring to ability or strong reactions, and "for" specifying a person or thing a quality relates to. - Some adjectives take different prepositions depending on if the subject is impersonal or

1. Adjectives with
Prepositions
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2. Adjectives with Prepositions
When you use an adjective after a link verb you can
often use the adjective on its own or followed by a
prepositional phrase.
He was afraid.
He was afraid of his enemies.
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3. Adjectives with Prepositions
Some adjectives cannot be used alone after a link
verb. If they are followed by a prepositional phrase, it
must have a particular preposition.
aware of unaware of
accustomed to unaccustomed to
fond of used to
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4. Adjectives with Prepositions
I’ve always been terribly fond of you.
He is unaccustomed to the heat.
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5. Adjectives with Prepositions
Use with OF to specify the cause of a feeling
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6. Adjectives with Prepositions
They may be jealous of your success.
I was terrified of her.
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7. Adjectives with Prepositions
Used with OF to specify the person who has a
quality
brave good polite
thoughtful careless intelligent
sensible unkind clever
kind silly unreasonable
generous nice stupid
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8. Adjectives with Prepositions
I turned the job down, which was stupid
of me.
That was clever of you.
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9. Adjectives with Prepositions
• Used with TO usually referring to:
SIMILARITY: close, equal, identical,
related, similar
MARRIAGE: married, engaged
LOYALTY: dedicated, devoted, loyal
RANK: junior, senior
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10. Adjectives with Prepositions
My problems are similar to yours.
He was dedicated to his job.
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11. Adjectives with Prepositions
Use WITH to specify the cause of a feeling
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12. Adjectives with Prepositions
He was pleased with her.
I could never be bored with football.
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13. Adjectives with Prepositions
• Use AT, usually referring to:
STRONG REACTIONS:
amazed, astonished, shocked, surprised
ABILITY:
bad, excellent, good, hopeless, useless
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14. Adjectives with Prepositions
She was always good at languages.
He was shocked at the hatred they had
shown.
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15. Adjectives with Prepositions
• Use FOR to specify the person or the
thing that quality relates to
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16. Adjectives with Prepositions
It was unusual for them to go away at the
weekend.
It’s difficult for young people on their own.
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17. Adjectives with Prepositions
Some adjectives take different
prepositions.
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18. Adjectives with Prepositions
Use an impersonal subject and OF and the subject of
the action, or with a personal subject and TO and the
object of an action.
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19. Adjectives with Prepositions
It was rude of him to leave so suddenly.
She was rude to him for no reason.
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20. Adjectives with Prepositions
• Use ABOUT to specify a thing
• WITH to specify a person
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21. Adjectives with Prepositions
They’re getting pretty fed up with him.
He was still angry about the result.
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