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This paper deals with the use of prepositions in the passives of the six emotion verbs (satisfied, pleased, delighted, annoyed, disappointed, disgusted) known as taking the preposition with. It investigates their regional variations between contemporary British and American English based on the corpora BNC and COCA and diachronic changes based on COHA (1820-2019). It turned out that the preference for prepositions varied between BE and AE, and that the occurrence rates of with also varied across different verbs. From a diachronic perspective, it was found that the use of of has rapidly decreased, while those of about and by increased. This paper argues that ‘democratization’ and ‘grammaticalization’ are the reasons for the increase of about and by, respectively.
