GMAT Prepositions and Idioms Practice

I love when the GMAT Club post about prepositions and idioms. It’s a great way to quickly get an English lesson on something specific, useful, and important.

The GMAT verbal section heavily tests your ability with prepositions and idioms. Today’s post talks about two specific prepositions and the idioms they can be found in: “of” and “for”.

First, a few general comments about prepositions and idioms:

1) Prepositions are always closely followed by a noun or pronoun, or something that functions as a noun (like a gerund or a substantive clause).

2) Usually prepositions are singular. However, it is possible to...

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