I'm eager to join

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"I'm eager to join an already great ball club, and hopefully I can help bring a world championship to the club". AP) PHILLIES GET JENKINS Outfielder Geoff Jenkins accepted a two-year, $13 million contract from Philadelphia.

If there are a pool of educators somewhere who are becoming wealthy by putting in 60 hour weeks doing the hard work of teaching young people, I'm eager to join them.

When, as a fifteen-year-old refugee in Pakistan, he makes the fateful decision to cross back into Afghanistan and fight in the anti-Soviet jihad, there isn't a quiver of thought: "Like most young men at the time, I was eager to join in.

I was eager to join the surging masses and abandon my cellular company of four years, Sprint PCS, for the potentially greener pastures of T-Mobile, a decision that had everything to do with poor customer service and absolutely nothing to do with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Perhaps you felt I would be eager to join the celebration because my school is a private school.

Ruth Schuette, a property manager who is a member of the museum, said she was eager to join it because "I didn't want to take a chance of going there through Canada or someplace else".

"Some people are eager to join the fray," she continued.

And for those of us who are eager to join?

Not every city is eager to join the trend.

They seem to be eager to join in".

And G.O.P. politicians were eager to join in the smear.