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  • what's the difference between concern concerned and concerning?

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  • Concern isn't down, and it means worry.

  • We often talk about feeling or expressing concern about something for someone or that, plus a clause.

  • For example, Sir David Attenborough often expresses concern about people's treatment of the environment.

  • Concerned is an adjective, and it means worried.

  • It has the same propositions as the now about four on that, for example, the bride is concerned that there won't be enough food for the reception.

  • Concern as a verb is a little bit more complicated, but one of its meanings is still worry.

  • It's not used in the first or second person.

  • So not I concern or you concern.

  • But we do use it with a preparatory subject.

  • It so it concerns me, means it worries me.

  • We don't normally use it in the continuous form, and we follow it with that, plus a clause, for example, it concerns me that London is becoming so expensive.

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  • Concern can be a formal way of saying about, and it tells us which topic we are referring to.

  • In this way, you can also use concerning which is a proposition.

  • For example, this email concerns the ongoing dispute regarding worker pay.

  • There have been a number of questions concerning the suggested pay rise.

  • Concern can also mean involved or effect, and we use it to link the relevant people with the situation.

  • For example.

  • Please listen carefully, Eunice.

  • This lesson concerns you from this.

  • We get the past participle concerned, which means involved or affected on.

  • This often goes after a noun like a participle clause.

  • For example, the workers concerned will get a 3% pay rise.

  • Those not concerned we'll get nothing.

  • Finally, as far as is concerned now use with a pronoun such as you or I.

  • It means, in my opinion, for example, as far as I'm concerned, pepperoni pizza is the best.

  • However, use it with a different now to introduce the topic or thing.

  • For example, as faras cooking is concerned, I love cooking anything with eggs.

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