Prepositions | High-Frequency Prepositions

(C) The following adjectives and participles take the preposition for after them: anxious, celebrated, conspicuous, customary, designed, destined, eager, eligible, eminent, fit, good, grateful, notorious, prepared, proper, penitent, qualified, ready, sorry, sufficient, useful, zealous.

Preposition 'OF'

(A) The following nouns take the preposition 'of ' after them: assurance, abhorrence, charge, distrust, doubt, experience, failure, observance, proof, result, want.

(B) The following adjectives and participles take the preposition 'of ' after them: accused, acquitted, afraid, apprehensive, apprised, assured, aware, bereft, bought, cautious, certain, characteristic, composed, confident, conscious, convicted, convinced, covetous, defrauded, deprived, desirous, destitute, devoid, diffident, distrustful, dull, easy, envious, fearful, fond, greedy, guilty, heedless, ignorant, informed, innocent, irrespective, lame, lavish, negligent, productive, proud, regardless, sanguine, sensible, sick, sow, subversive, sure, suspicious, tolerant, vain, void, weary, worthy.

(C) The following verbs take the preposition of after them: acquit, beware, boast, complain,
despair, die, disapprove, dispose, divest, dream, heal, judge, repent, taste.

Preposition 'TO'

(A) The following nouns take the preposition 'to' after them: allegiance, approach, assent, alternative, access, accession, antidote, antipathy, exception, incentive, indifference, invitation, key, leniency, likeness, limit, menace, obedience, opposition, objection, obstruction, postscript, preface, reference, resemblance, repugnance, sequel, submission, supplement, succession, traitor, temptation.

(B) The following adjectives and participles take the preposition 'to' after them.

(i) acceptable, accessible, accustomed, abhorrent, addicted, adequate, adjacent, affectionate, agreeable, akin, alien, alive, amenable, analogous, applicable, appropriate, beneficial, callous, common, comparable, condemned.

(ii) conducive, conformable, congenial, consecrated, contrary, creditable, deaf, derogatory, detrimental, devoted, disastrous, due, entitled, equal, essential, exposed, faithful, fatal, foreign, hostile, impertinent, incidental, inclined.

(iii) Indebted, indifferent, indispensable, indulgent, inimical, insensible, injured, irrelevant, favorable, hurtful, immaterial, impervious, indigenous, liable, limited, lost, loyal, material, natural, necessary

(iv) offensive, opposite, obedient, obliged, painful, partial, peculiar, pertinent, pledged, preferable, prejudicial, prior, profitable, prone, relevant, repugnant, reduced, related, responsible, restricted, sacred, subject, suitable, sensitive, serviceable, suited, supplementary, true, tantamount.

(C) The following verbs take the preposition 'to' after them: accede, adhere, allot, aspire, assent, attain, allude, apologize, adapt, appoint, ascribe, attend, attribute, belong, consent, contribute, conduce, conform, lead, listen, object, occur, prefer, pretend, refer, revert, stoop, succumb, surrender, testify, yield.

Preposition 'FROM' 

(A) The following nouns take the preposition from after them: abstinence, cessation, deliverance, descent, digression, escape, exemption, inference.

 
(B) The following verbs take the preposition from after them: abstain, alight, cease, debar, derive, derogate, desist, detract, deviate, differ, dissent, elicit, emerge, escape, exclude, preserve, prevent, prohibit, protect, recoil, recover, refrain

Preposition 'IN'

(A) The following adjectives and participles take the preposition 'in' after them: accomplished, accurate, assiduous, absorbed, abstemious, backward, bigot, correct, defective, diligent, deficient, experienced, enveloped, fertile, foiled, honest, implicated, interested, involved, lax, proficient, remiss, versed.
(B) The following verbs take the participles 'in' after them: acquiesce, delight, employ, enlist, excel, fall, glory, increase, indulge, involve, persevere, persist,

Preposition 'WITH'

(A) The following adjectives and participles take the preposition 'with' after them: acquainted, affected, beset, busy, compatible, compliant, consistent, contemporary, contented, contrasted, conversant, convulsed, delighted, deluged, disgusted, drenched, endowed, fatigued, fired, gifted, infatuated, infected, infested, inspired, intimated, invested, overcome, popular, replete, satisfied, touched

(B) The following verbs take the preposition 'with' after them: associate, bear, clash, coincide, comply, condole, cope, correspond, credit, deluge, disagree, dispense, expostulate, fill, grapple, intrigue, meddle, quarrel, remonstrate, side, sympathize, trifle, vie.

Preposition 'ON'

The following verbs take the preposition 'on' after them: comment, deliberate, decide, depend, determine, dwell, enlarge, embark, encroach, impose, insist, intrude, subsist, trample.