Chapter 9

Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs

Dependent prepositions and common phrasal verbs for SPM.

Dependent prepositions

  • good at, interested in, afraid of, depend on, responsible for, proud of.

Phrasal verbs

  • carry out (do), bring up (raise), look into (investigate), turn down (reject).

Key idea

SPM tests fixed prepositions (responsible for, proud of) and phrasal verbs (carry out, look into); learn them as set phrases.

Remember

Memorise dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs as whole chunks.

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