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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 11
EXERCISE TEXT

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. In 1833 she was introduced 1 Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, who first had the idea for a programmable computer.

Ada translated the work of an Italian mathematician on Babbage's Analytical Engine. This machine was an important step in the history of computers; it was the design 2 a mechanical computer. Babbage worked on it for many years until his death in 1871. However, because of financial, political, and legal issues, the engine was never built.

When Ada translated the article, she added a set of notes which described 3 detail a method for calculating certain numbers with the Analytical Engine, which have since been recognized by historians 4 the world's first computer program. The computer programming language “Ada' is named 5 her.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 in2 to3 after4 as5 at6 of7 before