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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

Sally Barnes sat at her desk in the living-room and wondered how to begin her weekly letter to her parents. Usually, she would write about her week, about Harry and his work.

1 this particular occasion, however, she just did not know what to write, although in their last letter her parents had asked her to write soon and tell them about the preparations 2 the approaching wedding. She and Harry had talked it 3. Harry had wanted a quiet wedding with a small party for friends afterwards. “There's no point 4 having anything bigger, is there?' he had said, Sally had agreed 5 him, but deep down she knew that her parents would like all the family to be there. She would have to make a decision sooner or later.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 in2 over3 with4 towards5 below6 on7 for