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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 2
EXERCISE TEXT

As Monsieur, watchmaker 1 profession, was strolling 2 the boulevard one bright January morning, his hands in his trousers pockets and stomach empty, he suddenly came face 3 face with an acquaintance — Monsieur Sauvage, a fishing chum.

Before the war broke out Morissot had been 4 the habit of setting forth with a bamboo rod in his hand and a tin of box on his back. He took the train, got out at Colombes and walked to Ile Marante. The moment he arrived at this place of his dreams he began fishing and fished 5 nightfall.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 in2 between3 till4 by5 to6 out7 along