Thursday, June 14, 2007

Words Followed by Prepositions

A

ability at
She shows great ability at mathematics.

afraid of
Are you afraid of spiders?

agree with
i agree with you.

agree about(something)
We agree about most things.

agree to(a suggestion)
I'll agree to your suggestion if you lower the price.

angry with (someone for doing something)
I'll angry with my friend for not telling me the truth.

angry about(something)
What are you angry about?

apologize for
I must apologize for disturbing you.

arrive at
What time did you arrive at Mandalay?

B

bad at
She's not bad at pronunciation

believe in(something)
I believe in Santa Claus but I don't believe in ghosts.

belive (someone)
Don't believe him. He's lying.

C

clever at
I'm not clever at cooking.

congratulate(someone on something)
I must congratulate you on your success.

crash into
The plane crashed into the mountains.

D

depend on
We may play football-- it depends on the weather.

different from (someone/something in quality)
You are very different from your brother.
This pen is different from that pen in colour.

difficulty with
We are having difficulty with our new boss.

difficulty in (doing something)
We find much difficulty in speaking with dumb people.

disappointed with (someone)
He is always late so we are disappointed with him.

disappointed about (something)
My father is disappointed about my exam results.

divide into
The book is divided into three parts.

dream of
I often dreamed of being famous when i was a child.





3 comments:

Sai Linn Thu said...

Noted! ေနာက္လဲခုလိုမ်ိဳးသြားရင္းလာရင္း မွတ္သားစရာေကာင္းတဲ့ English Usage ေလးေတြ တင္ပါဦး.... Thanks u very much!

ယူဆဂိ said...

စိုင္းလင္းေရ..
ဖတ္ထားသမွ်ေတာ့ အခ်ိန္ရတိုင္း မျခြင္းမခ်န္တင္ေပးပါ့မယ္။ စိတ္ခ်ပါ။ အခုလို ဖတ္မယ့္သူရွိရင္ ပိုေတာင္ရွာေဖြပီးတင္္ပါ့မယ္

naing said...

႐ွာေဖြေလ ေတြ႔ ႐ွိေလပဲ ။ လာဖတ္မွာပဲ ။