hey guys i'm alex thanks for clicking
and welcome to this lesson on adjective
and preposition combinations
okay so first of all we have to
understand what an adjective is
as a reminder an adjective is a word
that describes something that can
describe a noun so when you look at
these adjectives or these sentences
i want you to tell me if you can
identify the adjectives what are the
adjectives in these sentences
so he's not interested
writing
okay the adjective is
interested
okay so interested describes
this person's state he is not interested
something writing okay the other one i
am excited
your birthday
excited
right okay i think you're starting to
see the pattern right so joanna is
afraid
i think she's tired
he is
worried
mark is good
okay so these are all adjectives
adjectives adjectives and more
adjectives
now in english we often have adjectives
combined with prepositions
to create an expression or a small
phrase and we can follow these
prepositions with either a gerund which
is an ing
noun or verb acting like a noun
or just a noun in general so you noticed
writing your birthday failing trying his
test
cooking
okay so we have some gerunds and we have
some nouns now before this we have to
understand which prepositions are
commonly put with these adjectives so in
the first sentence he's not interested
writing
so think of as many prepositions as you
can you have at on in you have about
around buy with tons and tons and tons
of possibilities
so what you have to know is okay which
preposition always goes with this
adjective so the first one maybe you
know this he's not interested
in
writing okay i'm not interested in doing
something
okay second one
i am excited
your birthday
okay you are excited about something
usually
i am excited about your birthday
you can also say i am excited for your
birthday but the most common preposition
here after excited is you are usually
excited about something so you can be
excited about a person's birthday you
can be excited about your vacation you
can be excited about doing something
this weekend with your friends
okay next one joanna is afraid hmm
failing okay afraid is commonly followed
by of
okay she is afraid of failing she does
not want to fail it's similar to saying
scared of okay so joanna is scared of
failing afraid of failing she does not
want to fail
the next one
i think she's tired
trying
so she has been trying and trying and
trying again and again and now she has
grown tired of
it so so far we have in about of of
let's do another one he's worried
his test
now if i said he's worried for his test
what do you think the meaning of that is
it's possible to say he's worried for
but in this situation if you said he's
worried for his test
it means that you know his
his test is like a person kind of and
his test has feelings and maybe his test
is depressed so he's worried for his
test that his test is gonna cry or
something so here he's worried about all
right
he's worried about his test about his
score and the last one mark is good hmm
cooking
mark is good
at okay this is a really really common
expression it means you have ability in
something okay so if you have good
ability you are good at something so
mark is good at cooking
mark is great at cooking excellent at
cooking
if you want to do the opposite you can
say a person is bad at something or
terrible at something awful at something
horrible at something
okay
so guys these expressions are really
really important and the prepositions
please please please please please
remember the correct prepositions that
you have to use after these adjectives
because if you use a different
preposition it will not make sense okay
so if you want to test your
understanding of these expressions of
these adjective preposition combinations
just check out the quiz on anvid.com
good luck guys take care