Glad for is common when you feel happy about another person's success or situation. Glad of is less common and usually means pleased to have or receive something.
Use glad for when you feel pleased for someone else. Use glad of mainly in expressions like glad of the chance or glad of your help. It is less common in modern English.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use glad for when you are pleased about another person's good situation.
Glad of means grateful or pleased to have or receive something. This use is somewhat formal or old-fashioned.
Glad about is common for situations, news, or outcomes.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Glad for is the natural choice when talking about another person's good news.
✕ I'm glad of you getting the job. ✓ I'm glad for you getting the job.Glad for usually refers to people or their situations.
✕ She was glad for the extra blanket. ✓ She was glad of the extra blanket.Glad to is followed by a verb.
✕ I'm glad to the news. ✓ I'm glad to hear the news.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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It is still used, but it sounds more formal or less common than glad for or glad about.
Glad about the news is more natural. Glad for usually refers to people.
Glad to is followed by the base form of a verb, such as glad to help or glad to meet you.
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