BE + adjective + NEWS FOR – English Grammar Profiler

BE + adjective + NEWS FOR expresses an opinion or a reaction to some information. For example, you might say, “It’s good news for the environment that the government banned plastic bags.”

The adjective describes how the speaker feels about the news, and the preposition FOR introduces who or what the news affects. For example, you might say, “It’s bad news for the farmers that there is a drought.”

You can use different adjectives to express different emotions or attitudes, such as happy, sad, exciting, surprising, etc. For example, you might say, “It’s exciting news for the fans that their favorite band is coming to town.”

A search in the NOW corpus at 17.7 Billion words for:

_VB _JJ news for

1 IS GOOD NEWS FOR 15470

This is good news for us.

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2 IS GREAT NEWS FOR 7351 3 ‘S GOOD NEWS FOR 7101 4 BE GOOD NEWS FOR 6042 5 IS BAD NEWS FOR 4887 6 ‘S BAD NEWS FOR 3018

7 BE BAD NEWS FOR 2802

8 ‘S GREAT NEWS FOR 2421a 9 WAS GOOD NEWS FOR 2297 10 IS WELCOME NEWS FOR 1300 11 IS FANTASTIC NEWS FOR 1183 12 BE WELCOME NEWS FOR 1081 13 WAS BAD NEWS FOR 893 14 BE GREAT NEWS FOR 881 15 IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR 852 16 ARE GOOD NEWS FOR 757 17 WAS GREAT NEWS FOR 600 18 IS POSITIVE NEWS FOR 529 19 ARE BAD NEWS FOR 526 20 BEEN GOOD NEWS FOR 456 21 WAS BETTER NEWS FOR 435 22 IS BIG NEWS FOR 421 23 IS EXCITING NEWS FOR 389 24 WAS WELCOME NEWS FOR 345

25 ‘S WELCOME NEWS FOR 298