GMAT Prepositional Idioms List - McElroy Tutoring

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2	able + infinitive	*base on	call for	are in danger of + gerund	[in an] effort to	fail in	get credit for/give credit for	help + thing/person + infinitive	in contrast to	judge by ( not on)	know to do X	leads to	Manage to	Name	be oblivious of	partake of	question whether	range of	sacrifice X for Y	Take advantage of	use as	view as	wait for
3	ability to	based on	capable of	date from	easy to	fail to	get rid of	be hindered by	inclined to	just as…so too		less than	mandate that	*native to	oblivious to	participate in		*range from X to Y	[the] same as	tamper with	Use + person/thing + infinitive	vote for	wait on
4	accede to	because of	care about	deal with	[in an] effort to	fear that	grounds for	hypothesize that	in danger of	just as X, so Y		less X than Y	*make + thing/person + verb (simple form)	*a native of	off	Perceive as		rates for (not 'of')	the same to X as to Y	target at	used + infinitive	in violation of	X is to… what…Y is to
5	access to	begin + infinitive	care for	debate over	either …or	fluctuations in	grow from		identical to/with			likelihood of / likelihood that	as a means to / as a means of	need	Once in	*permit + thing/person + infinitive		rather than	Save for	teach + person + infinitive	to be + used to + gerund	Visit	to be + willing + infinitive
6	acclaimed as	believe X to be Y	centers on + person/thing	debate on	elect to	be familiar with	grow out of		independent from			likely to	meet with	need to	One X for every Z ( some numeric number) Y's ...	permit X to Y / X permits Y for Z		to ratify	save from	teach + person + thing	[the] use of		worry about
7	accompanied by	belief in	center upon ( not round)	decide + infinitive	elect + person	fascinated by			Independent of			likely to be	Meet	a need for	opportunity for	persuade X to Y		receptive of	in search of	tell + person
8	according to	benefit from	chance to / chance of	decide on/upon + thing/person	be embarrassed by ( not at)	flee from			indifferent towards			liken to	*mistake + thing/person + for	to be + necessary + infinitive	opportunity to	plead guilty for … failing		receptive to	see as	Tend
9	account for	between X and Y	choice of	decline in	emerges from	*forbid to			indicate that			localized in	modeled after	necessity of	opposed to	potential to / potential for		related to	seek + infinitive	tend to
10	on account of	better served by X than by Y	choose to / from	defend against	*enable + person + infinitive	forbid X to do Y			indicate to + person				to monitor	necessity for	opposition to	practice for		relations with ( not towards )	seek + thing/person	tendency to ( not for)
11	account to	better than	choose + infinitive	defined as	enable X to Y	for over...XXX years...			infected with				more common among X than among Y	neither...nor	opposite of	practice to		refer to	seem + infinitive	that X ...that Y
12	accuse of	both X and Y	cite X as Y	delighted by	enamored with	force + thing/person + infinitive			inherit from				(no) more...than/(no) less...than	no less… than	to orbit	practice of		*regard as	seem to indicate	think of…as
13	acquaint with	both at X and at Y	claims to	demand that	*encourage + person + infinitive	focus on + thing/person			in order to				more than ever	no less an authority than…	X ordered Y to do Z	predisposed to		X regarded as Y	sense of so…that	threaten to
14	acquiesce in	both on X or on Y	claims to be / claims that	demonstrate that	encourage X to Y	frequency of			Inside				move away from	no less was X than was Y	ought to	preferable to		regardless	send to	tie to
15	adapted for	boom in	collaborate with	depend on	encouraged by	from X to Y			insist that				matter of _____	X is unknown, nor it is known	Originate in	prefer X to Y		repent of	be sensible of	tinker with ( not at )
16	affect to	bringing to	collide with (not against)	depends on whether	end with, end in (not by)				instance of				manner in which _____	no sooner…than		prejudiced against		replace with	be sensitive to	be tolerant of ( not to )
17	affinity with	built by	comment on	depicted as	entrusted with				instead of					not X but rather Y		pressure to		in response to	separate from	train to
18	afflicted with		combined X with Y	descend from	be envious of, jealous of				X instead of Y					not only X, but also Y		prevent from		require + thing/person + infinitive	sequence of	transit to
19	afraid of		combined X and Y	descendent of	be equal to ( not as)				instill something in someone					noted that		prior to		required of	similar to	transmit to
20	agree on + noun		compare to (similarities)	desirous of	escape from				intent to					not [a] but [b]		prized by		requiring that X Y	sleep with	try to
21	agree on + gerund		compare with (differences)	determined by	be essential to				interaction of					Not ……. but [rather merely]		prized as		require that X be Y	so (adjective) that	to try to fix
22	agree to		*compare A to B	*different from/differ from	estimate to be				introduce to					not in a flash...but in a ...		prized for		requiring X to Y	so X that Y	type of
23	agree with		*compare A with B	difficult + infinitive	to be + essential to + person/thing				invest in					not only...but also		profit by ( not from )		requisition for	so X as to be Y	target ___ as
24	aid + person/thing		compensate for	at a disadvantage	except for + person/thing				isolate from					Not so ……. as		*prohibit from + gerund		research to	so X as to constitute Y
25	aid in + gerund		comply with	disclose to + person/organization	except for + gerund				in ___ as with ____					not so much...as		prohibits X from doing Y		resemble + thing/person	so as not to be hindered by
26	aim at		comprise of	*distinguish between X and Y	except that									not so much to X…as to Y		prohibits X from Y		resemblance of X to Y	so unrealistic as to
27	allergy to		to be + composed of + thing	*distinguish X from Y	to exchange X for Y									not ( X or Y ) nor Z		promise of + thing		resemblance between X and Y	be solicitous of ( not to )
28	allocated to		concerned for – worried	disagree with (person/idea)	expect to											promise to		resistance to	be sparing of ( not with )
29	allows for		concerned with	discourage from	X expected to Y											protect against		responsibility to	speak to + person
30	a lot		concerned about	disdain of	expected X to be Y ...											protest against ( not at )		responsible for	speak with + person
31	although x,y		conclude that	dispose of												provide with		restitution...for ...	spend on
32	alternative to		concur in ( an opinion)	dispite + Noun Phrase	explain to											way to provide		results in	subject to
33	amount to		concur with ( a person)	feel disgusted with ( not at)	expose to											published by		results from	subscribe to
34	analogy with		conducive to	at one’s disposal	extend to											published in		result of	substitute [a] for [b]
35	analogous to		conform to	dispute whether	extent of/ extent to													retroactive to	such...as
36	angry at		in conformity with	divergent from	equal													rival for	such X as Y and Z
37	widely anticipated that		connection between X and Y	doubt that	equal to													rivalry between X and Y	such X that
38	appear to		consequence of	draw on (take out)	expected that X would be Y													*the rivals X and Y	suffer from ( not with)
39	apply to		consider X Y (without to be)	draw + thing														rule that	superior to
40	argue over/ with		consist with	to be drawn to + thing/person															supplant by
41	appeal to		consist in	*dream of/about															to survive
42	approve/disapprove of		consist of	due to															suspicious of
43	*as....as		consistent with	dwindle from															sympathy for
44	as X so Y		contend that	different from															sympathize with
45	as …so too…		*consider + person/thing	dispute over															see ___ as
46	as X to Y		continue + infinitive
47	ask of		contrast A with B
48	ask X to Y		in contrast to
49	ask + infinitive		contribute to
50	ask + person + infinitive		contrary to
51	*associate with		convert to
52	associate X with Y		correspond to
53	assume ...to be of...		correspond with
54	assure that		*count on + person/thing
55	at least as . . . as		cost to/of
56	attend to (someone)		craving for
57	attribute X to Y / X is attributed to Y		created with (not to)
58	attempt to		give credit for
59	attention to		to credit with (something or doing something)
60	attended by		credited as + Noun phrase
61	attest to		credited with + Verb phrase
62	authority on		credit X Rupees to Y’s account
63	available to		conceived as
64	averse to
65	aware of
66	as measured by
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