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Which sentence is correct?John is angry at meJohn is angry to meJohn is angry on meJohn is angry with mePlus please explain why and when you can use at/on/inthanks my friends!

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

1. You are angry with a person: Are you angry with him?
2. When anger is directed not so much against a person, but against an occurrance or a situation, at is often used: They were angry at the mere suggestion of such a thing!
3. About is sometimes used when whatever gives rise to the anger is emphasised: Her mother was very angry about her staying out so late.
To and on sound wrong to me.

CB

Tanit · Answer

Hi,

I've always seen "angry at/with" somebody.

Cambridge dictionary He's really angry at/with me for upsetting Sophie.
I don't understand what he's angry about.
[+ that] They feel angry that their complaints were ignored.
I got really angry with her.
It made me really angry.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=2872&dict=CALD

Oxford dictionary (at / about / over sth)| ~ with / at sb (about / for sth) having strong feelings about sth that you dislike very much or about an unfair situation:
Please don’t be angry with me. It wasn’t my fault.
The passengers grew angry about the delay.
He felt angry at the injustice of the situation.
Thousands of angry demonstrators filled the square.
The comments provoked an angry response from union leaders.
I was very angry with myself for making such a stupid mistake.
Her behaviour really made me angry.
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/?cc=global

A search on Google shows also combinations of angry + [ to | on] + somebody, but they sound incorrect to me, unless that preposition depends on another verb. For instance, I found some occurrences of "He looked / sounded/ seemed angry to me", but the preposition to here has to be linked with the verb look/sound/seem.

Wait for a native's opininion.

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EDIT: I spent too much time searching for my references and didn't see CB had already replied.

Yoong Liat · Answer

Cool Breezeoccurrance

occurrence (typo?)

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