⭐️Prepositions with WORK⭐️


📕From Longman Dictionary📕

🔷You work IN a city or area:

▪️He works in Lahore.

🔷You work IN a type of place such as a bank, shop, or factory:

▪️She works in a library.

🔷You work AT a particular place or organization:

▪️She works at the Library of Congress.

🔷You work FOR a person, company, or organization that employs you:

▪️He works for his father.
▪️We both work for the same company.

🔷You work IN an industry or a type of job, for example education, advertising, or IT:

▪️He works in advertising.

🔷You work AS a waiter, cashier, accountant etc:

▪️She works as a cook.
✖️Don’t say: She works as cook.

🔷You work ON a project or task:

▪️Several people worked on the report.


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⭐️Prepositions with MANAGE⭐️


📘Manage with an implement, a tool, or something which one uses

✨The ladder isn't quite so long as I thought, but I think I can manage with it.

📙Manage on one's income, one's pension, five pounds a week, etc. (i.e. on the resources available).

📕Manage for= manage in respect of

✨How did you manage for money?

✨The baker has not called today; I don't know how we are going to manage for bread.

📗Manage about is confined to colloquial English, and means manage 'in the matter of'.

Its precise meaning is rather vague, and has to be inferred from the context:

✨I don't know how women who are out at work all day manage about shopping' (i.e. how they manage to get their shopping done)

✨How do you manage about the dog when you go away on holiday?' (i.e. what do you do with it, or what arrangements do you make for its care?).

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⭐️Prepositions with TROUBLE (verb)⭐️


📕Followed by about, with, and for. When trouble is used transitively:

⏩ Trouble one about (something) means 'trouble one concerning whatever is mentioned;'

🔻I am sorry to keep troubling you about the letter, but until it is found I cannot answer it.

⏩ Trouble one with (something) means 'trouble one by bringing the thing in question before him'.

🔻He is always troubling me with some complaint or another.

⏩ Trouble one for (something) means 'trouble one in order to obtain whatever is mentioned'.

🔻Could I trouble you for the newspaper, please?

📗When trouble is used intransitively:

⏩ Trouble about means 'trouble (oneself) concerning'

🔻Just call and see me when you feel inclined; don't trouble about writing (or to write) first.

🔻If you trouble about every little thing that goes wrong, you will never have any peace of mind.

⏩ Trouble with 'trouble (oneself) by having, helping, considering, using, etc. Whatever or whoever is mentioned'.

🔻I have a good breakfast and good meal in the evening, and never trouble with lunch.

🔻A person who asks your advice and then ignores it is not worth troubling with.

⏩ For is not used with the intransitive verb

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⏩ It goes without saying that when trouble is used transitively, it can be followed by by.

🔻They have been deeply troubled by the allegations.


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⭐️Prepositions with CONCENTRATE ⭐️

⏩When concentrate is used in the sense of 'draw together to one central place or point', the place or point is indicated by whatever preposition is appropriate; e.g.: concentrate troops

🔹in a particular area or district
🔹at a sea port
🔹along the bank of a river, etc.

⏩When it means:

🅰️ direct intensively towards some particular spot or object

or

🅱️ direct one's energies, efforts, or attention to, the preposition used is ON ; concentrate:

🔹gunfire on a town
🔹on one's work
🔹one's attention on the matter in hand
🔹all one's efforts on getting through an examination

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🏫AT School 🆚 IN School🏫


✨AT school has the following meanings:

1️⃣ Attending school.

🔹John is not at school today.
🔹She went out to do her shopping while the children were at school.
🔹Is Susan still at school, or has she left?
🔹An increasing number of pupils are staying at school until they are eighteen.
🔹We've got two children at school, and one at unvirstiy.

2️⃣ On the school premises.

🔹I was at school until almost half past five yesterday.
🔹He couldn't do his homework, as he found he had left his text-book at school.

3️⃣ In one's lessons or school work.

🔹A good deal of what we learn at school we forget in afterlife.
🔹Andrew is getting on very well at school.

✨On the other hand, IN school has the following meanings:

1️⃣ In the school building.

🔹Pupils are not allowed in school after 8.30 a.m.

2️⃣ In lesson's time.

🔹We did the first part of the exercise in school, and the rest for homework.

3️⃣ In American English, in school is used for attending a school or university.

🔹Are your boys still in school?

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Reference: English Prepositional Idioms by Frederick T. Wood.

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✨ Prepositions with AGREE

🔹When you agree WITH someone/something, it means you accept the point of someone/something:

🔻I agree with you.Matt does not agree with my answer.

🔹You agree ON some issue or point of debate:

🔻We agreed on this issue.

🔹You agree TO demands/queries, or you agree to do something:

🔻He agreed to my demands.
🔻He agreed to join me for the movie.

🔹When you agree ABOUT, you have the same opinion.

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📚TILL (as a preposition)


1️⃣ Up to a time or an event specified.

🔹In those days we had to work till six o'clock.

🔹The party travelled from dawn till dusk.

🔹Till the death of his father he held a minor position in the family business.

2️⃣ Before a specific time or event. (This is found chiefly in sentences of negative import.)

🔹I can't see you till three o'clock.

🔹We don't expect an answer till next Wednesday at earliest.

🔹He didn't come into the property till the death of his elder brother.

📗Till is also used, with the same two meanings as above, as a subordinating conjunction to introduce an adverb clause of time.

📕As a conjunction, however, it has a third use, which combines the first meaning given above with the suggestion of result:

🔹We laughed till the tears rolled down our cheeks.

📙Till and until are usually interchangeable, though until is more usual than till at the beginning of a sentence:

🔹Until her marriage she worked as a secretary.

and when it is desired to emphasise the idea of duration of time rather than merely the end of a period. Otherwise rhythm and euphony would seem to be the deciding factors.

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Refrence: English Prepositional Idioms

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⭐️ Prepositions with Late (as an adjective) ⭐️


📗Late for something that starts or due to take place at a set time:

◽️late for an appointment
◽️late for work
◽️late for school.

✨We shall have to hurry, or we shall be late for the bus.

📘Late at a place one should reach by a certain time:

◽️late at the office
◽️late at the bus stop

📙Late in doing something:

✨The guests were late in arriving.
✨We were late in setting off.
✨I was late in sending my reply to this letter.

📕In colloquial English there are two developments from this last construction.

🅰️In may be omitted before the gerund:

✨The bus is late arriving.
✨I was late getting up this morning.

🅱️If the gerund is a transitive one, in+the gerund may be replaced by with:

✨We were late with lunch today. (i.e. late in having lunch)
✨The B.B.C. are not often late with the news. (i.e. late in broadcasting the news).

📙When late means 'formely', it is followed by of to indicate the former place of residence, or some institution or organisation with which the person was associated:

✨Eliza Smith, late of this parish
✨Arthur Jone Brown, late of Barchester
✨William James Burton, late of the Indian Civil Service

📒Of late: lately; recently.

✨Her health seems to have improved considerably of late.


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✨Prepositions with LAUGH✨


📕Laugh AT a person, a joke, a story, etc ➡️ when the person or thing in question directly provokes the laughter.

📗Laugh ABOUT a person or a thing ➡️ when it is not the person or the thing themselves that provoke the laughter, but something in connexion with them.

🔹We were laughing about your brother. (I.e. about humorous situation in which your brother was involved.)

🔹We were laughing about that burglary that Brown thought he had discovered. (I.e about the story of how Brown thought he had discovered a burglary.)

📘Laugh OVER something ➡️ to laugh when one discusses or thinks of it:

🔹We have often laughed over that story.

📙When laugh means 'disregard', 'set at naught', 'despise', at is the only prepostion used:

🔹laugh at danger
🔹laugh at his threat
🔹laugh at one's fears.

📒Laugh OFF: shrug off, or brush aside, with laughter:

🔹laugh off an insult
🔹laugh off an awkward question (off is here an adverb).

📓Laugh on the other side of the face ➡️ exchange amusement for disappointment, sorrow or regret. (Colloquial.) Generally used when misfortune suffered by a person is thought of as retribution for his past arrogance, insolence, or lack of sympathy with others.

🔹He may laugh at our discomfiture now, but before he'll be laughing on the other side of the face.

📔Laugh to scorn ➡️ show one's scorn of something by laughing at it.

🔹He laughed to scorn the suggestion that they should seek a compromise with the other side in the dispute.

📚Laugh up one's sleeve ➡️ laugh secertively; be amused without openly expressing it (usually with a spirit of triumph, or another person's discomfiture). (Colloquial)

🔹We had a feeling that he was laughing up his sleeve at us.

📖Have the laugh of someone ➡️ be in a position to laugh at him because of his discomfiture or humiliation, or because he has been proved wrong.

🔹He disregard our advice and insisted on going his own way, but now we have the laugh of him.


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✨Prepositions with ANXIOUS✨

📕When anxious means ➡️ ‘worried’, it’s followed by ABOUT to indicate the cause of anxiety:

🔹She is very anxious about her husband’s health.

📗When it means ➡️ ‘keenly desirous of’, it takes FOR:

🔹She is very anxious for her son to succeed.

✨The same idea as that conveyed by anxious for can be expressed by anxtious followed by a noun clause :

🔹She was very anxious that her son should succeed.

✨This is not possible, however, when the notional subject of the verb that follows anxious is the same as that to which anxious itself refers : then the infinitive must be used:

🔹She was very anxious to succeed.

📙Anxious lest ➡️ takes us back to the first meaning of anxious given above (worried). It denotes something that one fears may happen and which one wishes to avoid or prevent:

🔹She was anxious lest someone else should break the news before she had the opportunity to do so.

✨The same constructions occur with anxiety, according to the particular meaning of anxious that it corresponds to.


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✨Prepositions with JEALOUS✨


📕Always jealous OF a person or his achievements.

✨When jealous means " eager to uphold or maintain ", OF may also be used, but FOR is often found:

🔹jealous for the good name of the family.

On the whole, FOR seems preferable for this latter meaning, since it may sometimes prevent ambiguity. For instance, the most obvious way to construe the sentence " He was jealous OF his friend's reputation" is that he ➡️ envied his friend's reputation, or regarded it with an unfriendly eye. If the opposite meaning is intended, FOR will make it clear.


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✨Prepositions with CRAZY


📕The form that the craze takes is indicated by ON (crazy on football, speedway racing, the latest “pop” singer, etc.): but “have a craze FOR” something.

🔹Ahmed is crazy on the latest pop singer.

📗Crazy FOR ▶️ expresses the object towards the realization of which the craziness is directed:

🔹At one time she was crazy for a cottage in the country; now she wants to get back to the town again.

📘That which causes or inspires the craziness is indicated by ABOUT or OVER:

🔹John's crazy about that girl.(or over that girl.)

✨These same two prepositions are the ones that follow Go crazy.


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According TO 🆚 According BY


⭕️ It's 4.30 according to/by the station clock.

(= as shown by; both possible when referring to clocks and watches)⌚️

⭕️ According to many scientists, the level of the oceans is rising. (Not *By*)

(= as stated by other people)👥


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Accompany by 🆚 Accompany with


🔹The president was accompanied BY his wife.
✨(accompany by is used with a person)

🔹The president was accompanied WITH a postage-due notice.
✨(accompany with is used with an object)


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Belong to 🆚 Belong with


🔹They belong TO the Secret Order of the Koala.
✨Belong to—be a member of

🔹These flowers belong WITH the plants classified as grasses.
✨Belong with—be classified or placed among


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✨Prepositions with BELONG

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⭐️Love OF, Love FOR⭐️

📕When the thing that one loves is something nonpersonal, ⏩it is usually indicated by OF: love of money, love of music, love of the countryside, his love of a particular joke, etc.

📗When it is a person that is loved, both OF and FOR are idiomatic. The tendency is ⏩to use OF when love means 'the fact of loving' ('It was his love of Hero that drove Lender to swim the Hellespont') and ⏩FOR when love means 'affection' (a parent's love for his children, the love of a man for a maid).

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💢Prepositions with EXPERIENCE


🔹Experience OF something that one has experienced:

🔻experience of life
🔻experience of foreign travel
🔻experience of working on a farm

🔹Experience IN a particular field:

🔻His experience in surgery is very limited.
🔻I wish to work in an up-to-date office, where I can gain experience in modern methods.

🔹Learn BY or FROM experience:

🔸BY suggest the method of learning.
🔸FROM the source of one’s knowledge.

🔻The best way to learn is to learn by experience.
🔻I have learned from experience that the cheapest method often turns out to be the dearest in the long run.


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⭐️Prepositions with CLAW⭐️


📕This verb can be used either transitively, or intransitively with the preposition at. The tranastive use directs more attention to the object that is being clawed.

🔺'The cat was clawing the door'
➡️suggests that it might damage the door by scratching it.

🔺'The cat was clawing at the door'
➡️suggests that it was trying to attract attention because it wanted the door to be opened.


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🔺Along or alongside?🔻


Along and alongside are #prepositions or #adverbs.

⚪️Along

As a preposition, along means ‘in a line next to something long and thin’, e.g. a road, a path:

➖There were lots of shops along the main street.

➖I saw three different boats along the bank of the river.

✨We use along as an adverb with verbs of motion meaning ‘together with’:

➖Why don’t you come along with us to the party?

➖They said they’d bring the bikes along and we can ride to the swimming pool.

⚫️Alongside

As a preposition, alongside means ‘close beside’, ‘next to’ or ‘together with’:

➖The trees alongside the fence have all been damaged by the wind. (near)

➖Put your bike alongside mine. (next to)

➖I find it difficult to cope with this illness alongside all my other problems. (together with)

✨We also use alongside as an adverb, meaning ‘along the side of’ or ‘next to’ something:

➖I parked my car in the drive and William parked his alongside.


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