Name: TO, ON, ABOUT: Prepositions of behavior in English
Uploaded: 2018-03-01T16:23:58.000Z
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I really need to be less
hard on myself about sports.

Today's lesson is going to be
about prepositions and behaviour.

I want to show you how we use prepositions
to talk about people's behaviour.

Now, behaviour is how someone
acts, their actions.

You know, are they good
to you, nice to you?

Because you know prepositions
is being used as one thing.

Today I want to show you a lesson how we take
the idea from the preposition, we put it with

an adjective, and then we can
talk about people's behaviour.

Well, you know "need", you know "hard", but
"hard on myself", what does that mean?

Well, Mr. E is using a preposition, which
is an adjective to talk about something he

"Hard" means strong, so he needs
to be less strong on himself.

In this case he needs
to be nicer to himself.

We're going to work on this now and you're
going to figure out how you can start using

prepositions with adjectives
to describe behaviour.

Okay, so, prepositions are most often
used for direction, time, and the reason.

"I'm going to the store", "I'll meet you
at 12 o'clock", "I did it for this".

But they can also be used to describe people's
actions, or behaviour, or what they're doing.

So I'm going to give you three popular
prepositions: "to", "on", and "about".

I will explain each one, and then give you
some collocations which are words that go

Collocation, it means they're always generally
found together, that will explain behaviour.

I'm not going to say two people, because that's
not a preposition, that's a number, but "to".

Use these adjectives before
"to", we can say: "cruel to".

So the direction of his
not-niceness goes to you.

So, when someone's kind to you, they are
nice to-you got it, direction again-you.

You know when someone's rude they act in a
way that's not nice, they show disrespect

When someone's "rude to", here we go again,
"to" means direction and that direction is

to whoever they say, rude to
them, rude to him, rude to me.

Somebody or something was helpful to you,
they gave you some help when you need it.

Help, and then full of help,
they were full of help to you.

So we've just discussed "to" and we know it
means movement, and in this case direction,

Tell us what the behaviour or actions
are that they are doing to you.

It's a three-for-one sale, I'm
going to teach you three.

Usually when we say "on" we mean to put on,
like on top, like on the surface of something,

"To" means direction, "on" means
on the surface or put it on.

And as you can see, I put my hand on me which means
something, I bet you're going to understand,

So we want to use these
adjectives before "on".

"Tough on", you know, Colgate is
tough on grease or tough on this.

So if someone's tough on you, for example,
if your parents were tough on you when you

If somebody is tough on crime, they are not
easy, they do not let it go, they don't say:

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