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Preposition Combinations with Adjectives, Nouns, and Verbs account for dressed in late for stop from accused of lend to subscribe to accustomed to eligible for limited to substitute for acquainted with envious of look forward to succeed in addicted to equipped with suitable for advantage of escape from married to superior to afraid of example of surprised by alternative to excited about nervous about suspicious of apply for excuse for notorious for approve of exhausted from take care of associated with exposed to object to thank for attached to opposed to tired of aware of faithful to trouble with familiar with participate in typical of bad at famous for patient with based on fed up with pleased with unaware of believe in filled with polite to used to belong to fond of pray for benefit of forget about prepared for vote for blame for frightened of prevent from borrow from full of prohibit from worried about busy with protect from ______gentle with proud of For more information and additional examples, visit the capable of gone from provide with following sites: cause of good at punished for cluttered with guilty of http://www.bedavaingilizce.com /prepositions/adj_pre.htm committed to qualified for composed of hide from http://esl.about.com/od/advanc congratulate on hope for ready for edvocabulary/ss/verbplusprep.h tm concerned about recover from connected to immune to related to http://www.learn4good.com/lan guages/evrd_grammar/adjective conscious of incapable of reply to s_prepos.htm consist of inferior to rescue from content with innocent of respond to http://english- learners.com/2010/01/verb- contribute to insure against responsible for preposition-combinations-2.html cost of interested in rid of convinced of introduce to http://www.english.sk.com.br/sk -pdv.html covered with invest in sad about invitation to safe from http://jm- ingles.foroactivo.net/t385- devoted to satisfied with adjective-preposition-gerund- different from jealous of serious about noun-preposition-gerund discriminated against shocked by http://www.sfsu.edu/~etc/?q=sy dissatisfied with keep from similar to stem/files/Verb- distinguish from kind to solution to Preposition_Combinations_Prep ositional_Objects_0.pdf divorced from spend on done with lack of stare at Feb 2012 314
Fill in each blank with the correct preposition.
1. She wants to subscribe ______a magazine that is suitable ______children.
2. Forget ______the past; be prepared ______the future.
3. He was satisfied ______the cost ______the new car, even though this car was inferior ______his previous one.
4. I am sure that I am qualified ______the job that I am applying ______.
5. The teacher is proud ______her students for participating ______the voter-registration drive.
6. We should take advantage ______our classrooms that are equipped ______modern technology.
7. Based ______the final evaluations, you should be pleased ______your performance.
8. Are oil companies committed ______developing alternatives ______fossil fuels?
9. They are not worried ______being late ______class.
10. She was shocked ______his decision to get rid ______his pet dog.
11. Parents are afraid ______their children being exposed ______lead and other heavy metals.
12. I am jealous ______that younger woman who is dressed ______expensive-looking furs.
13. He was so busy ______work that he was not interested ______eating lunch.
14. The scientists are devoted ______finding a solution ______the problem.
15. The children are familiar ______the idea of being polite ______elders.
16. They were unaware ______their invitation ______the national conference.
17. It is best to be patient ______students who are nervous ______writing.
18. John is divorced ______Judy; Fred is married ______Frieda.
19. The farmer hoped ______rain so that he would not have to borrow ______the bank.
20. The gang members were tired ______being associated ______dangerous criminals.
21. Some people are serious ______investing ______the stock market.
22. We are concerned ______how long it is taking him to recover ______his illness.
23. Because they are guilty ______the crime, it is possible that they will be punished ______it.