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Notes He’s worked here since 1970.

She’s been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.
Prepositions with Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs.
Prepositions are sometimes so firmly wedded to other words that they have practically become
one word. (In fact, in other languages, such as German, they would have become one word.)
This occurs in three categories: nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. Adjectives have ......... types of degrees.
2. Biggest is the ......... degree.

3. The word ......... comes after comparative degree.
4. Prepositions describes a ......... between other words in a sentence.
5. ‘They’ is a ......... .

Nouns and Prepositions

approval of fondness for need for
awareness of grasp of participation in
belief in hatred of reason for
concern for hope for respect for
confusion about interest in success in
desire for love of understanding of

Adjectives and Prepositions

afraid of fond of proud of
angry at happy about similar to
aware of interested in sorry for
capable of jealous of sure of
careless about made of tired of
familiar with married to worried about

Verbs and Prepositions

apologize for give up prepare for
ask about grow up study for
ask for look for talk about
belong to look forward to think about
bring up look up trust in
care for make up work for
find out pay for worry about

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