SKILL 56: RECOGNIZE INCORRECT PREPOSITIONS

Sometimes an incorrect preposition is given in a sentence in written expression questions on the TOEFL test.


The first example should say that “the game was called off” because of rain. The expression “called off” means canceled, and that is the meaning that makes sense in this sentence. “To call on” someone is “to visit someone”, and this meaning does not make sense in this example.
In the second example, it is not correct in English “to count in someone”. The correct expression is “to count on someone”.