Idiomatic preposition

SAT Glossary

Arbitrary word–preposition pairings the language simply enforces: different from, prefer X to Y, consistent with, capable of, responsible for, superior to, based on. The item buries the preposition thirty words from the word that governs it; the check is to strip the intervening material and read the pairing bare.

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