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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 7
EXERCISE TEXT

Whatever its origins, chess was known to exist in India as early as 500 B.C., and it eventually spread 1 India to Persia, where it took on much of the terminology that today is part of the game. Foot soldiers 2 the Persian army were called piyadah, which became the pawns of today's game, and the Persian chariot was a rukh, which became the rook. The Persian king was the shah, which evolved 3 the name chess. Shahmat, which means “the king is dead' became the expression checkmate. This expression is used 4 the game to indicate that one player's king is on the verge 5 being captured.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 into2 during3 opposite4 of5 among6 in7 from