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SECTION 09 · Prepositions and adverbs in context

Prepositions

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How to solve: PrepositionsA text with gaps and a bank of prepositions and adverbs.

What it tests

Prepositions in fixed phrases (by profession, face to face), after verbs and adjectives, and in time and place expressions.

In the exam: part IX, 1 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the phrase around the gap, not just the word before it.
  2. Think of the whole expression: in the habit of, by chance, at least.
  3. Check verb + preposition pairs: depend on, consist of, interested in.
  4. Time: in (months, years), on (days, dates), at (clock times); place: in/on/at.
  5. Use each bank word once; one is extra.

Watch out for

  • Translating the preposition from your own language.
  • till vs by: till = up to that moment, by = no later than.
  • along / across / through — direction matters.

Example

As Monsieur, watchmaker ____ profession, was strolling ____ the boulevard…

by profession (fixed phrase), strolling along the boulevard (movement following a street).

Text 10
EXERCISE TEXT

The Wampanoag are the native American tribe that helped the Pilgrims 1 the Mayflower to survive their first year in the New World. The tribe was divided 2 smaller groups, and each group was ruled 3 a chief. The Wampanoag lived in villages on the southeastern coast of North America. Their name means “people of the east'.

One member of the Wampanoag, Squanto, knew English because several years 4 he had been kidnapped and taken to Europe. Squanto was the first to meet the Pilgrims and he welcomed them 5 English. The Wampanoag shared their knowledge of hunting and fishing with the European settlers and showed them how to grow corn and it is now remembered as the first Thanksgiving.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 after2 from3 by4 before5 in6 into7 onto