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Enhance your understanding of idiomatic expressions with this grammar mini-lesson series. Learn how prepositions play a vital role in forming idioms. Practice identifying correct idiomatic usage with examples. Adapted from "Real Good Grammar, Too" by Mamie Webb Hixon.
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Writing Lab Idioms
Idioms • Idiomatic expressions generally consist of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and phrases which are associated with specific prepositions.
Idiom Examples • We agree with other people, but we agree on a promise. • Also, use according torather than according with and different from instead of different than. • We say “all of a sudden,” not “all of the sudden,” because “all of a sudden” is an idiomatic expression.
Let’s Practice! • 1. Planet Melmac was overcome by / with the Borg. • Planet Melmac was overcome by the Borg. • 2. Blowing up a planet may result in / from a black hole. • Blowing up a planet may result in a black hole. • 3. I am accustomed to / with the taste of Soylent Green. • I am accustomed to the taste of Soylent Green.
That’s all, folks! • This lesson is part of the UWF Writing Lab Grammar Mini-Lesson Series • Lessons adapted from Real Good Grammar, Too by Mamie Webb Hixon • To find out more, visit the Writing Lab’s website where you can take a self-scoring quiz corresponding to this lesson
