2006年8月24日 · Sentence 2) implies that the couple were worried/anxious about making a decision. It is not clear whether they have made the decision or they are worrying about a future decision. Worried is an adjective. In the US corpus (COCA) the pattern don't be worried about occurs 5 times, compared with don't worry about (2212 times).

2017年3月7日 · (2) My mother is worried about me. I was googling this matter and found these two pages: (i) worry, be worrying and be worried (ii) worry, be worried about, worrying I understand that form (1) above [present progressive] means that the mother is in the process of worrying. So I gather that it can mean that her worry is rather temporary,

2022年1月29日 · Out of context, yes. If I started to worry, I became worried. If you made that happen, you made me worry or worried. You made/got/had me worried. You can check out sentence patterns using "worried" here (talkenglish.com).

2009年7月22日 · Everybody was worried [1] about you. -> worried is an adjective qualifying 'everybody.' -> Everyone was in a state of worry about you. Everybody worried about you. -> This is the simple version of 'Everybody was worrying about you.' It describes the action without reference to extended time.

2017年7月15日 · 1) I'm worried if I have the flu 2) I'm worried if they videographed my embarrassing performance in school. 3) I'm worried if I broke my leg during the match If not, would they be idiomatic if I replaced 'if' with 'that'?

2015年11月28日 · Is "be worried if S + V" an acceptable grammar structure? For example: I'm worried if he can get up at 7:00 by himself. I'm worried if my presentation is good enough. I looked up the word "worried" in my dictionaries, but none of them included the structure in question. If these sentences above aren't natural, will you please give me better ...

2013年7月1日 · 1- "She always worried me" - means that she had a characteristic that made you worry about her. 2- "She always worried about me" - means that she was always concerned about you for some reason. 3- "I was worried by her silence" - has a similar meaning to (1), but it isn't her in particular that worries you, but her silence.

2013年2月13日 · "I am concerned/worried that I am losing weight." I have found that "I am concerned/worried that" could be rephrased to "I am concerned/worried about" in this way (take the above sentence as an example): "I am concerned/worried about me losing weight." Comments are welcome about the question that whether or not this is a general rule.

2011年1月7日 · "He is worried about you" - He is currently worried about you. "He is always worried about you" - He worries about you chronically. I'm not sure what the source of your confusion is. Think of the difference between: "I am sleepy" - I am sleepy right now. and "I am always sleepy" - I am chronically sleepy.

2018年7月12日 · I also thought 'worried' in 'He had me worried' was an adjective, initially. But then I realized that 'He had me worried' doesn't mean so much 'He had me in a state of being worried' as 'He worried me' or 'He had worried me'. If this realization is correct, I was wondering if 'worried' is really an adjective.