Adjective noun

embarrassed about/at/by embarrassment about/at

keen on keenness on

successful in success in

Verb noun

emerge from emergence from

object to objection to

This correlation does not always apply: e.g. be proud of/take pride in
Or a noun takes a preposition and the verb does not:
/ fear something My fear of something

I influence somebody My influence on somebody

Modification of prepositions and adverb particles

Prepositions and adverb particles can be modified by adverbs: directly above our heads, quite out of his mind right off the main road, well over $200, in particular, all, to mean 'entirely', can combine

8 Prepositions adverb particles and phrasal verbs

with numerous prepositions and particles, such as about along

down during round through Our baby went on crying all through the night

Straight (= immediately) is frequently used with movement and right

(= in the exact location) is commonly associated with destination He went straight to bed/into my office/up to his room He lives right at the end of the street/across the square

Word order in relation to prepositions

Single-word prepositions except e g but during except and since [> App 20] can be separated from the words they refer to in Wh-questions Where did you buy that jacket from? [> 13.31 n 4] Relative clauses The painting you re looking at has been sold [>

1.35-38]
Wh-clauses What he asked me about is something I can t

discuss (Separation is obligatory here)
Indirect speech Tell me where you bought that (from) (optional)
Exclamations What a lot of trouble he put me to'
Passives Our house was broken into last night

(The end-position is obligatory in the passive)
Infinitives / need someone to talk to [> 16.36]

Nowadays not many native speakers believe that it is 'bad style' to end a sentence with a preposition, though the choice of position does depend to some extent on style and balance

Verb + preposition/particle: non-phrasal and phrasal

General information about phrasal verbs

One of the most common characteristics of the English verb is that it can combine with prepositions and adverb particles [> 7.3.4] Broadly speaking, we call these combinations phrasal verbs Though grammarians differ about the exact definition of a phrasal verb, we may use the term to describe any commonly-used combination of verb + preposition or verb + adverb particle