Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Learn 20 of the most common English verb and preposition combinations. In addition to common prepositional verbs such as “depend on” and “listen to,” you will learn “believe in,” “agree with,” “belong to,” “plan on,” “provide someone with something,” and more. This is also a great video for English listening and speaking practice! I understand that English prepositions can be tough for learners, but by seeing, hearing, and repeating correct forms, you can improve your grammatical accuracy. Make sure to listen to and REPEAT the correct forms in the video, and to do the quiz at engvid.com/prepositions-in-english-20-verbs-with-prepositions to test your English skills when you’re finished watching the lesson. This is an intermediate English grammar lesson, but it’s never a bad idea to review the fundamentals even if you’re an advanced learner. I wish you luck with your studies. See you in the comments!
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In this lesson:
0:00 What is a prepositional verb?
1:08 belong to
1:53 deal with
2:34 depend on
3:38 rely on
4:16 count on
5:18 listen to
6:05 fight for & fight against
7:26 plan on
8:01 believe in
8:40 agree with
9:20 approve of
10:05 decide on
11:12 look at
11:57 look for
12:36 think about
13:06 remind someone of
13:49 add something to...
14:14 thank someone for something
14:49 provide someone with something
Learn 20 of the most common English verb and preposition combinations. In addition to common prepositional verbs such as “depend on” and “listen to,” you will learn “believe in,” “agree with,” “belong to,” “plan on,” “provide someone with something,” and more. This is also a great video for English listening and speaking practice! I understand that English prepositions can be tough for learners, but by seeing, hearing, and repeating correct forms, you can improve your grammatical accuracy. Make sure to listen to and REPEAT the correct forms in the video, and to do the quiz at engvid.com/prepositions-in-english-20-verbs-with-prepositions to test your English skills when you’re finished watching the lesson. This is an intermediate English grammar lesson, but it’s never a bad idea to review the fundamentals even if you’re an advanced learner. I wish you luck with your studies. See you in the comments!
For more common English you can use every day, get my book, 300 Practical English Words and Phrases: englishalex.com/product-page/300-practical-english-words-and-phrases
In this lesson:
0:00 What is a prepositional verb?
1:08 belong to
1:53 deal with
2:34 depend on
3:38 rely on
4:16 count on
5:18 listen to
6:05 fight for & fight against
7:26 plan on
8:01 believe in
8:40 agree with
9:20 approve of
10:05 decide on
11:12 look at
11:57 look for
12:36 think about
13:06 remind someone of
13:49 add something to...
14:14 thank someone for something
14:49 provide someone with something







![Advanced English Lesson: Using ADJECTIVES as NOUNS
Did you know that its possible to turn adjectives into nouns? No, were not talking about word families like heat and hot. Were talking about discussing social groups like the elderly, the poor, the unemployed, the middle-class, and more. This is a useful lesson for those who are interested in debating or writing about social and political issues in English. Alex will also look at the use of this language in popular culture by discussing famous English books and movies which utilize the form and vocabulary taught in this lesson. Click on this video and become one of the enlightened, then take the quiz at http://www.engvid.com/adjectives-as-nouns/
TRANSCRIPT
Oh, Little Red Riding Hood, you were one of the innocent. Hey, everyone. Im Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on using adjectives as nouns. Now, this lesson is particularly useful if you are writing academic essays, or if you are writing academic or general essays for language tests, like the IELTS or the TOEFL. This terminology that you will learn today can be used to talk about social groups, you know, that all have something in common with one another.
And to use an adjective as a noun, all you have to do is add the in front of the adjective. Now, this doesnt work for every single adjective. I mean, you could say: The happy have happier lives than the sad, but the happy doesnt really describe a known social class, so I would stay away from that and try to stick to, you know, the stuff that you see here, when talking about different social classes.
So, again, you can use this to refer to and categorize people by their social class or their condition in life. For example, if you want to talk about rich people, you can say: the rich; poor people: the poor. So, for example, heres an essay question that you might see on something like the IELTS: Should the rich be taxed more than the poor? Okay? So: Should the rich... Should rich people, you know, have more taxes than poor people? Instead of saying: poor people, rich people, you can say: the rich, the poor.
Now Im going to give you some examples of very common ways... Some very common examples in which we use: the plus an adjective to discuss different social groups. So, here, we have: the elderly. The elderly refers to people who are at an advanced age, or you can say: older people. Okay? So, you know, the elderly need to be taken care of by society. The unemployed - people who do not have jobs. You know, it is difficult for the unemployed to make progress in life, for example. So, people who dont have work.
The mentally ill, so these are people who have mental health issues. The mentally ill do not receive enough support in society, or the mentally ill should have more support from governments, you know, financial backing and everything like this. You can also use this to talk about some groups from specific countries, so: the English, the Irish, the French, the Swedish. Okay? So, you can use it to talk about whole groups from another country. Not another country; just countries in general.
The homeless. All right? So, you can say, you know: The government isnt doing enough to help the homeless, which refers to all homeless people. Okay? The old - similar to the elderly, here. The old... The opposite of old is the young. So, we can say: Oh, young people today... Or: The young today need to have more responsibility. And I put: the educated, the uneducated - people who are educated, people who are not educated. You can talk about both of these.
And while Im looking at these, I realized that I forgot to put a couple very, very important ones for you guys, so let me do that right now. Now, these three groups dont completely follow the rule I laid out at the start of this lesson. So, I said: Use the plus an adjective to categorize a social class. These three classes: the working class, the middle class, the upper class use the adjective plus the noun class to categorize them, so this is why I left it out of, you know, these ones because the rules are a little different; it follows a slightly different structure. But you can talk about, you know, the working class - those who have lower paid jobs; the middle class - those who have medium-paying jobs; and the upper class, so basically the rich. You can use this a lot to talk about economics; the economic situations of different people in a country, in a society.
Now Im going to give you guys some pop culture examples of this, you know... Using adjectives as nouns. For example: the dead. Look at this quote: We are the dead. This is a very famous quote from the book 1984 and a song lyric by David Bowie. Those of you who dont know, 1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell in which a totalitarian government, you know, watches everything that their society does. […] Advanced English Lesson: Using ADJECTIVES as NOUNS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uQTo0GBGXGY/mqdefault.jpg)


