Hey, guys. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on adjective and
Okay, so first of all, we have to understand what an adjective is. As a reminder, an adjective
is a word that describes something, that can describe a noun. So when you look at these
adjectives or these sentences, I want you to tell me if you can identify the adjectives.
What are the adjectives in these sentences? So, "He's not interested, hmm, writing." Okay,
the adjective is "interested." Okay, so "interested" describes this person's state. "He is not
interested something writing." Okay, the other one, "I am excited, hmm, your birthday." "Excited."
Okay, I think you're starting to see the pattern, right? So, "Joanna is afraid." "I think she's
tired." "He is worried." "Mark is good." Okay, so these are all adjectives, adjectives, adjectives,
and more adjectives. Now, in English, we often have adjectives combined with prepositions
to create an expression or a small phrase, and we can follow these prepositions with
either a gerund, which is an -ing noun, a verb acting like a noun, or just a noun in
general. So, you notice, "writing," "your birthday," "failing," "trying," "his test,"
"cooking." Okay, so we have some gerunds and we have some nouns. Now, before this, we have
to understand which prepositions are commonly put with these adjectives. So, in the first
sentence, "He's not interested, hmm, writing." So, think of as many prepositions as you can.
You have "at," "on," "in," you have "about," "around," "by," "with," tons and tons and
tons of possibilities. So, what you have to know is, okay, which preposition always goes
with this adjective. So, the first one, maybe you know this, "He's not interested in writing."
Okay, "I'm not interested in doing something." Okay, second one, "I am excited, hmm, writing."
Okay, second one, "I am excited, hmm, your birthday." Okay, you are excited about something
usually. "I am excited about your birthday." You can also say, "I am excited for your birthday,"
but the most common preposition here after "excited" is, "You are usually excited about
something." So, you can be excited about a person's birthday. You can be excited about
your vacation. You can be excited about doing something this weekend with your friends.
Okay, next one, "Joanna is afraid, hmm, failing." Okay, "afraid" is commonly followed by "of."
Okay, "She is afraid of failing. She does not want to fail." It's similar to saying
"scared of." Okay, so, "Joanna is scared of failing, afraid of failing. She does not want
to fail." The next one, "I think she's tired, hmm, trying." So, "She has been trying and
trying and trying again and again, and now she has grown tired of it." So, so far we
have "in," "about," "of," "of." Let's do another one, "He's worried, hmm, his test." Now, if
I said, "He's worried for his test," what do you think the meaning of that is? It's
possible to say, "He's worried for," but in this situation, if you said, "He's worried
for his test," it means that, you know, his test is like a person, kind of, and his test
has feelings, and maybe his test is depressed. So, he's worried for his test that his test
is going to cry or something. So, here, "He's worried about," right? "He's worried about
his test, about his score." And the last one, "Mark is good, hmm, cooking." "Mark is good
at," okay? This is a really, really common expression. It means you have ability in something,
okay? So, if you have good ability, you are good at something. So, "Mark is good at cooking."
"Mark is great at cooking," "Excellent at cooking." If you want to do the opposite,
you can say, "A person is bad at something," or "Terrible at something," "Awful at something,"
"Horrible at something," okay? So, guys, these expressions are really, really important,
and the prepositions, please, please, please, please, please remember the correct prepositions
that you have to use after these adjectives, because if you use a different preposition,
it will not make sense, okay? So, if you want to test your understanding of these expressions,
of these adjective-preposition combinations, just check out the quiz on www.engvid.com.