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- 23-Mar-2009, 16:05 #1
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interested Please, dear teachers and friends...
Could you shed some light on this?
The other day I heard someone say "interested about". I thought there was no such construction, but it looks like it is such a verb that many prepositions goes with...
Well... what's the difference between them?
I'm interested to hear about your family
I'm interested on/in/from/about/(?) hearing about your new job.
I'm interested from getting started.
Is there any other preposition that could go with "interested"?
Many thanks
Last edited by Offroad; 23-Mar-2009 at 17:24. Reason: typo
- 23-Mar-2009, 16:14 #2
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Re: interested I like in.
But I'm interested in seeing what others think....
- 23-Mar-2009, 16:14 #3
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Teacher Re: interested Interested about is not usual. We may consider "in" to be the normal preposition following "interested," for example: "I am not interested in these photographs" and "I am interested in your sister."
- 23-Mar-2009, 16:24 #4
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Teacher Re: interested The adjective 'interested' is only followed by the preposition 'in'.
M.
- 23-Mar-2009, 16:58 #5
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Teacher Re: interested I'd be interested to know why you are sure of this.
Originally Posted by mad1982 
- 23-Mar-2009, 17:14 #6
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: interested IN
they are interested in social phenomena
no one in their immediate family was interested in farming
ON
I'm not interested on being on the cover for real again
And I'll be very interested on the Democrat side to see if...
FROM
He is interested from the neighborhood side
Others are very interested from the beginning in the...
ABOUT
I'm interested about the skip...
You're not interested about me
TO
I was kind of interested to see how far he would take it
I'd be interested to coming down to work..
OF
she was interested of the idea of Mike...
greater interested of the game
AT
she doesn't seem interested at 6 or 7 months...
we're interested at putting you onLast edited by Offroad; 23-Mar-2009 at 18:26. Reason: typo
- 23-Mar-2009, 19:32 #7
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Re: interested Two points. Day's best gotcha. Originally Posted by konungursvia I'd be interested to know why you are sure of this.
- 23-Mar-2009, 20:49 #8
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Teacher Re: interested I'd be interested to know where you've got all these examples from!
Before having replied to your question, I'd had a look in several dictionaries, e.g. LDOCE.
Of course, I'm familiar with 'to' and 'in', but the other ones....I'm stuck!
M.
P.S. Just a thought: perhaps it's something to do with lexical priming?!Last edited by mad1982; 23-Mar-2009 at 21:33.
- 23-Apr-2009, 19:16 #9
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: interested Originally Posted by mad1982 I'd be interested to know where you've got all these examples from!
I got them from the Corpora of American and British English.
Before having replied to your question, I'd had a look in several dictionaries, e.g. LDOCE.
Of course, I'm familiar with 'to' and 'in', but the other ones....I'm stuck!
M.
P.S. Just a thought: perhaps it's something to do with lexical priming?!
what?
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