Prepositions
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Use your textbook p. 73 to do this revision exercise.
- 1.Identify the prepositions in the following: The dark-haired boy sat beside the car parked behind the trailer park.
- A.
Dark-haired boy
- B.
Sat
- C.
Beside/ behind
- D.
The car
- E.
Parked
- F.
The
- G.
Trailer park
- 2.Choose the correct combination of prepositions to complete the following sentence: I am writing_______ behalf __________ my friend.
- A.
To/of
- B.
By/of
- C.
On/of
- D.
For/of
- 3.Choose the correct answer.
- A.
Something is shared among two people
- B.
Sometthing is shared between two people
- 4.Choose the correct option:
- A.
I pour the milk in the bowl.
- B.
I pour the milk into the bowl.
- C.
I pour the milk to the bowl
- 5.The Ford is parked ____________ the Volkswagen.
- A.
Next
- B.
Beside
- C.
Next to
- 6.Choose the incorrect combination:
- A.
Good in
- B.
Ready for
- C.
Bad at
- D.
Different from
- E.
Good at
- 7.Choose the correct option.
- A.
What are you staring at?
- B.
At what are you staring?
- C.
Which are you staring at?
- 8.Choose the incorrect preposition.
- A.
The computer is on the table
- B.
The computer is under the table
- C.
The computer is next to the table
- D.
The computer is beneath the table.
- 9.
- Which cluster only contain prepositions?
- A.
Down, next to, above, through, in front of
- B.
Jump, leap, walk, scream, laugh, sing, drive
- C.
Light, blue, straight, best, dry, fast, coiled
- 10.· According to the director, our salary increase is scheduled to take effect July 1. Identify the prepositional phrase in the above:
- A.
To take effect
- B.
According to the director
- C.
Is scheduled
- 11.Which is not a preposition in: After eating lunch, Timmy raced down the street, skipped across the playground, and hid in the alley by the market.
- A.
After
- B.
Down
- C.
Across
- D.
By
- 12.After eating lunch, Timmy raced down the street. After is not a preposition but an adverb of time.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Where is the preposition? Her best friend lives across the street.
- A.
The street
- B.
Her best friend
- C.
Friend lives
- D.
Across the street
- 14.Where is the preposition? It was a long walk, so he began moving slowly towards the town.
- A.
Towards the town
- B.
It was a long walk
- C.
Began moving slowly
- D.
So he began
- 15.Where is the preposition? The smallest cheerleader stood on top of the shoulders of the tallest one.
- A.
The smallest cheerleader
- B.
On top of
- C.
The shoulders
- D.
Tallest one
- 16.Where is the preposition? He cleaned his room by stuffing everything underneath his bed.
- A.
Underneath his bed
- B.
He cleaned
- C.
His room
- D.
Stuffing everything
- 17.Where is the preposition? The sweaty workman leaned his ladder against the house.
- A.
The sweaty workman
- B.
The house
- C.
Leaned
- D.
Against the house
- 18.Where is the preposition? We often go fishing along the river bank.
- A.
River bank
- B.
Go fishing
- C.
Along the river bank
- D.
Often
- 19.Where is the preposition? Jessica sat and watched the sun rise over the distant hills.
- A.
The sun rise
- B.
Jessica sat
- C.
Sat and watched
- D.
Over the distant hills
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