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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 1
EXERCISE TEXT

I looked 1 the apartment where I had spent most of my life. The window was open and sounds 2 the street mixed with the talk show from the radio that my mother always kept on. It seemed that she had even turned the volume up to get her mind 3 the fact that I was leaving. She sat in her favourite chair, the one I had had to fix 4 least twice a year for as long as I remember. Who would fix it now? I wondered absently.

The doorbell rang and my sister entered 5 waiting for someone to let her in.

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Choose the best word for each gap

1 back2 without3 around4 beneath5 at6 off7 from