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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 5
EXERCISE TEXT

The Swiss eat a lot of their own famous cheese, but they also export large quantities 1 countries all over the world. In fact they say that cheese is one of the most important articles 2 Swiss exports.

However, what they sell in American shops 3 the name of Swiss cheese is often American made. It has holes, to be sure, and you can hardly see any difference. But you have to taste it as well, then you cannot mix 4 the two. Swiss cheese-makers complain that there is not enough protection 5 their product. But, after all, they produce some kind of Tilsit cheese in Switzerland, although Tilsit is somewhere east of Poland.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 up2 to3 between4 under5 for6 above7 among