Paul: I tolerate spiders because they eat other insects, but am not keen on them being too close. Colin: The ceremonial opening of the window is occurring - it does happen quite a lot. Betty: We're going to leave the castle, the pud castle, like Paris is on fire. No language learner would be angry with or angry about some prepositions in English. Some learners of English want cold hard answers and no solid rules.
Amber and Paul join me in my pod room again for a rambling discussion about everything! Includes a language point about adjective + preposition collocations. Notice the phrases and try to find examples of them in context. Video version available.
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