SKILL 57: RECOGNIZE WHEN PREPOSITIONS HAVE BEEN OMITTED
SKILL 57: RECOGNIZE WHEN PREPOSITIONS HAVE BEEN OMITTED
Preposition can be used in two ways: in a literal way and in an idiomatic way. In the literal use, the preposition means exactly what you expect.
-The boy ran up the hill.
-She went in the house.
In the first example, the preposition up means that the boy went in the direction up rather than down. In the second example, the preposition in means that she went into rather than out of the house.
In the idiomatic use, which is what appears most often on the TOEFL test, the preposition appears in an idiomatic expression; that is, its meaning in this expression has nothing to do with the literal meaning.
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