I'm so excited ____ my brother. He just got a new job!

I'm so excited ____ my brother. He just got a new job!

• A. for
• B. about
• C. to
• D. at

Answer: (A)

Expressing happiness for someone else’s good news uses the preposition for to show it’s about the person’s benefit. Here, the feeling is toward my brother and his achievement, so the natural choice is for: I’m so excited for my brother. He just got a new job! Using about would shift the focus to the event itself rather than the person, which sounds less natural in this context. To would require a different structure with an infinitive verb (excited to …), changing the meaning to a future action rather than expressing support for his news. At isn’t the typical choice for this sense either.

Expressing happiness for someone else’s good news uses the preposition for to show it’s about the person’s benefit. Here, the feeling is toward my brother and his achievement, so the natural choice is for: I’m so excited for my brother. He just got a new job!

Using about would shift the focus to the event itself rather than the person, which sounds less natural in this context. To would require a different structure with an infinitive verb (excited to …), changing the meaning to a future action rather than expressing support for his news. At isn’t the typical choice for this sense either.