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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).

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EXERCISE TEXT

A ghost word is a non-existent word that has made its way into a reference work 1 mistake. One well-known example 2 a ghost word is the word Dord, which appeared in a 1934 American dictionary defined as density, as it is used in physics and chemistry. Dord was added 3 the dictionary when a typesetter who was making entries into the dictionary misread the entry D or d and typed it as Dord. 4 reality, the letter d was used to refer to density in physics or chemistry. When the error was discovered, the ghost word Dord was removed 5 the dictionary.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 by2 with3 of4 beyond5 from6 to7 in