Words followed by Preposition 📝📝
☑️ 1. Preposition FOR is used after these Nouns :
Affection, ambition, anxiety, apology, appetite, aptitude, blame,
candidate, capacity, compassion, compensation, contempt, craving,
lesire, esteem, fitness, fondness, guarantee, leisure, liking, match,
motive, need, opportunity, partiality, passion, pity, prediction, pretext,
relish, remorse, reputation, surety.
☑️ 2. Preposition WITH is used after these words :
Acquaintance, aliance, bargain, comparison, conformity, enmity, intercourse, intimacy, relations.
☑️ 3. Preposilon OF is used after the following words :
Abhorrence, assurance, charge, distrust, doubt, expenence, failure, observance, proof, result, want.
☑️ 4. These words are followed by Preposition TO ........
Access, accession, allegiance, alternative, antidote, antipathy, approach, assent, aftachment, attention, concession, disgrace, dislike, encouragement, enmity, exception, incentive, indifference, invitaton, key, leniency, likeness, limit, menace, obedience, objection, obstruction,
opposition, postscript, preface, referene, repugnance, resemblance, equal, submission, succession, supplement, temptation, traitor
☑️ 5. Preposition FROM is used after the following words :
Destinence, cessation, deliverance, descent, digression, scope,
exemption, inference, respite.
☑️ 6. Preposition TO is used after the following words :
Abhorrent, acceptable, accessible, accustomed, addicted, adequate,
djacent, affectionate, agreeable, akin, alien, alive, amenable, analogous,
applicable, appropriate, beneficial, callous, common, comparable, condemned, conducive, conformation, congenial, consecrated, contrary, creditable, doat, derogatory, detrimental, devoted, disastrous, due, entitled, equal, essential, exposed, faithful, fatal, foreign, hostile,
indispensable, indulgent, inimical, insensible, inured, irelevant, favourable,
hurtul, immaterial, impevious, indigenous, limted, lost, loyal, material, natural, necessary, obedient, obliged, offensive, opposite, painful, partial, pecular, petinent, pledged, preferable, prejudicial, prior, profitable, prone, reduced, related, relevant, repugnant, responsible, restricted, sacred,
sensilive, serviceable, subject, suitable, suited, supplementary, tantamount.
☑️ 7. Preposition IN is used after the following Adjectives and Participles :
Absorbed, abstemious,
accomplished, accurate,
assiduous, backward,
bigoted, correct,
defective, deficient,
experience, diligent,
enveloped, fertile,
foiled, honest,
implicated, interested,
involved, proficient,
remiss, temperate, versed.
☑️ 8. Prepositon With is followed by these words :
Acquainted, afflicted, beset, busy, compatiable, complaint, consistent,
contemporary, contented, contrasted, conversant, convulsed, delighted,
deluged, disgusted, drenched, endowed, fatigued, fired, gited, intatuated,
infected, infested, inspired, intimate, invested, overcome, popular, replete,
satiated, satisfied, touched.
☑️ 9. Preposition OF is used after these words :
Accused, acquitted, afraid, apprehensive, apprised, assured, aware, bereft, bought, cautious, certain, characteristic, composed, confident, conscious, convicted, convinced, covetous, defrauded, deprived, desirous, destitute, devoid, ditfident, distrustful, dull, easy, envious, fearful, fond, greedy, guily, heedless, ignorant, informed, innocent, irrespective, lame, lavish, negligent, productive, proud, regardless, sanguine, sensible, sick, slow, subversive, sure, suspicious, tolerant, vain, void, weary, worthy.
☑️ 10. Preposition FOR is used after these words :
Anxious, celebrated, conspicuous, customary, designed, destined,
eager, eligible, eminent, fit, good, grateful, notorious, penitent, prepared,
proper, qualified, ready, sorry, sutficient, uselul, zealous
☑️ 11. Preposition TO is used after these words :
Accede, adapt, adhere, allot, allude, apologize, appoint, ascribe, aspire, assent, attain, attend, attribute, belong, conduce, conform, consent, contribute, lead, listen, object, occu, prefer, pretend, refer, revert, stoop, submit, succumb, surrender, testily, yield,
☑️ 12. Preposition FROM is used after the following words :
Abstain, alight, cease, debar, derive, derogate, desist, detract, deviate, differ, digress, dissent, elicit, emerge, escape, exclude, preserve, prevent, prohibit, protect, recoil, recover, refrain.
☑️ 13. Preposition With is used after these words :
Associate, bear, clash, coincide, comply, condole, cope, correspond, credit, deluge, disagree, dispense, expostulate, fil, grapple, intrigue, meddle, part, quamel, demonstrate, side, sympathize, vie.
☑️ 14. Preposition OF is followed by these words :
Acquit, beware, boast, complain, despair, die, disapprove, dispose, divest, dream, heal, judge, repent, taste
☑️ 15. Preposition FOR is used after these words :
Atone, canvass, care, clamour, teel, hope, mourn, pine, start, stipulate, sue, wish, yearn .
☑️ 16. Preposition IN is used after these words :
Acquiesce, dabble, delight, employ, enlist, excel, fall, glory, increase, indulge, involve, preserve, persist.
☑️ 17. Preposition ON is followed by the following verbs :
Comment, decide, deliberate, depend, determine, dwell, subsist, embark, encroach, enlarge, impose, insist, intrude, resolve.
📄 EXERCISE FOR PRACTICE ✍️✍️
📝 Choose the corect preposition :
(a) He is __ the committee. (in/at/on)
(b) Jim stared __ Della. (at/to/for)
(c) They waited __ us. (for/from/with)
(d) The man has no want __ money.
(of/in/to)
(e) He came __ 5. p. m. (at/in/on)
(f) Father refrained me __ going to cinema. (from/behind/against)
(g) The teacher prohibited __ telling lies. (from/upon/within)
(h) Our Headmaster is proficient __ Engish. (in/to/by)
(i) Hamlet pretended __ madness. (to/at/from)
(j)I objected __ his proposal. (to/against)
(k) He complained __ me. (against/for/to)
(l) Industry is the key __ success. (to/from/with)
(m) His attempts ended __ smoke. (in/upon/in)
(n) Man has no escape ___ death. (from/to/behind)
(o) He dwells ___ a fine house. (in/on/at)
(p)I ditfer ___ you on this point. (with/by/for)
(q) He deals ___ his customers politely. (with/for)
(r) The committe consists ___ five members. (of/for/by)
(s) You can confide __ his honesty. (in/upon/on)
(t) Take care __ your health. (of/in)
(u) I was born __ a middle class family. (of/in/after)
(v) The ship is bound __ London. (for/from/at)
(w) The students is busy __ his desk. (at/upon/to)
☑️ Put a circle against the corect answer:
1. He died ___ malaria.
(a) for
(b) by
(c) from
(d) of
2. He died __ an accident.
(a) of
(b) from
(c) by
(d) for
3. I cannot agree __ your proposal.
(a) to
(b) at
(c) on
(d) with
4. He prevented me __ going there.
(a) of
(b) from
(c) on
(d) by
5. He congratulated me __ my success.
(a) at
(b) in
(c) on
(d) with
6. Dont boast __ your wealth.
a) of
(b) of
(c) on
(d) in
7. The teacher is popular __ the students.
(a) by
(b) for
(c) from
(d) with
8. He takes pride- his wealth.
(a) in
(b) on
(c) against
(d) upon
9. He prefers milk __ tea.
(a) from
(b) by
(c) to
(d) with
10. He insisted __ my going.
(a) at
(b) on
(c) upon
(d) under
11. He is sure __ his success.
(a) of
(b) into
(c) about
(d) for
12. We should not hanker __ money.
(a) for
(b) to
(c) after
(d) against
13. The padma abounds __ fishes.
(a) with
(b) in
(c) by
(d) for
14. He looks __ his old parents.
(a) at
(b) of
(c) after
(d) for
15. True happiness consists ___ contentment.
(a) in
(b) at
(c) with
(d) by
