Essential English Prepositions and Verb Patterns

Verb and Adjective Patterns with Prepositions

• Concentrate on something
• Shout at someone for doing something
• Shout to someone to do something
• Argue with someone
• Apologize to someone
• Complain about something
• Insist on doing something
• Depend on someone
• Rely on someone
• Argue about something
• Lie about something
• Criticized for doing something
• Pay for something
• Translate into something
• Succeed in doing something
• Specialize in something
• React to something
• Apologize for something
• Accuse someone of doing something
• Search for something
• Borrow from someone
• Lend to someone
• Aim at something/doing something
• Name after someone
• Divide into something
• Complain to someone about something
• Proud of someone/something
• Upset with someone
• Upset about something
• Good at something/doing something
• Protest against something
• Responsible for doing something
• Good for something
• Aware of something
• Respect for someone
• Based on something
• Allergic to something
• Familiar with something
• Reputation for doing something
• Responsible for something
• Identical to something
• Report on something
• Fed up with doing something
• Fond of something/doing something
• Keen on something/doing something
• Blame someone for something
• Fluent in something
• Dissatisfied with something
• Capable of doing something
• Mad about something
• Hooked on something
• Sick of doing something
• Short for something

Common Prepositional Phrases and Idioms

• In advance
• Instead of
• By mistake
• In debt
• Against the law
• On good terms
• For nothing
• Consist of something
• Aspects of something
• Awareness of something
• Solution to something
• Effect on something
• Need for something
• Smell of something
• Victims of something
• The reason for something
• Chance of doing something
• Difficulty in doing something
• Increase in something
• Investigation into something
• There is no point in doing something
• Lack of something
• Attitude towards something
• In theory / In practice
• On the news
• Due to something
• By chance
• In a bad mood
• By heart
• No intention of doing something