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Nervous Adjective Competition Prepositions Father Walking Home Late

Task I'm very nervous _______ the competition.
Answer 4
a in
b at
c by
d about
comment We can use three prepositions after the adjective ‘nervous’: (1) ‘about’ (Her father was nervous about her walking home so late.); (2) ‘of’ (My wife has always been a little nervous of change.) and (3) ‘for’ - the same as nervous about (I’m so nervous for Monday’s exam!).
topic adjective pluse preposition
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