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Takes time. IMO, you should buy Spears, McGraw Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs read a page of it a day and you'll make great progress.

Yes. He died of gunshot wounds is certainly an external cause.M-W's Dictionary of English Usage comments:"From as far back as 1881, there have been varying pronouncements as to which prepositions may be used with which objects after the verb die. Sometimes disapproval is expressed of one...

I think your question will be better answered if you can give us some examples in context so that we have a sense of what you don't understand. From reading your question, I have no idea. Phrasel verbs, prepositions and idioms are completely different animal from each other. Based on my...

Sir what is difference between phrasel verbs,prepositions and idioms

Admit to is an idiom. Technically it consists of the intransitive verb admit and the preposition to. The idiomatic combination admit to means acknowledge.She admitted to making a mistake means She acknowledged making a mistake. Technically, making is the gerund object of the preposition to,...

Thanks, Clive. So, one more meaning of 'so as to' is 'in such a way as to'; and the preposition 'to' shows the purpose , and the idiom 'so as to' doesn't show the purpose. Right?

Hello MaXmOuSe I'll give you some clues: 4-....... which better education,better health care ] Think "preposition". 6-them ] Not quite. Try again? also open up any 7-.......... of career opportunities ] This is very difficult, unless you already know the idiom. Try googling on this phrase: ...

Thank you khoff, Indeed, I have 'through and through' on my list, so Emlyn si a Welshman, through and through. I don't know if there are any mistakes in the exercise, I hope not, but I can't rule it out.When it comes to the remaining idioms, what do yoy think about this? I can't tell you how...

Paco, Like Mr. P., I would say "except for" is the same, generally speaking, as "but for". I would call it a compound preposition, like "on account on", to cite just one example. "if it were not for" does not yield well to a literal analysis. It is best thought of as an idiom. "it" is a...

Allwords.com has: Idiom: all over something -Everywhere in or on it. -Example: all over the world Even though no dictionaries which I consulted show "all over" as a two-word preposition, I think that is how it is functioning in this idiom. I see "all over the world" as a...