Different prepositions after pleased show different meanings, including satisfaction, happiness about news, sympathy, or reaction to actions.
Use pleased with for satisfaction with a thing or person. Use pleased about or pleased at for situations or news. Use pleased for someone when sharing their happiness. Use pleased by for reactions to actions or behaviour.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use pleased with for satisfaction or approval.
Use pleased about for situations, events, or news.
Pleased at is slightly more formal than pleased about.
Use pleased for when someone else has good news or success.
Use pleased by for something that causes a positive reaction.
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.
Pleased for is mainly used with people.
✕ I am pleased for the result. ✓ I am pleased with the result.With often refers to a thing or person directly, while about refers to a situation or event.
✕ She was pleased with the news. ✓ She was pleased about the news.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. Pleased at is more formal than pleased about.
Yes. You can be pleased with someone's work or behaviour.
Pleased about focuses on a situation or event, while pleased by focuses on what caused the reaction.
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